query: endemic_to black-fronted parakeet
supports: The extinct black - fronted parakeet or Tahiti parakeet ( Cyanoramphus zealandicus ) was endemic to the Pacific island of Tahiti . Its native name was simply ''  ( `` parrot '' ) according to Latham ( 1790 ) though White ( 1887 ) gives `` aa - maha '' . It was discovered on James Cook 's first voyage in 1769 , on which the two specimens now in Liverpool and the one in the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in Tring appear to have been collected . Two of them - one of those in Liverpool and the Tring specimen - may also have been taken on Cook 's second voyage , in 1773 , but the type was painted by Sydney Parkinson who had died in 1771 . Another specimen , collected by Amadis in 1842 , is in the museum at Perpignan . The last known specimen was collected in 1844 by Lieutenant des Marolles , and is now housed in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle , Paris . The Society Islands includes a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It is, politically and legally, part of French Polynesia. The archipelago is believed to have been named by Captain James Cook during his first voyage in 1769, supposedly in honour of the Royal Society, the sponsor of the first British scientific survey of the islands; however, Cook, himself, stated in his journal that he called the islands "Society" "as they lay contiguous to one another." French Polynesia  is an overseas collectivity of the French Republic; " (COM)", sometimes unofficially referred to as an overseas country; " (POM)". It is composed of 118 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over an expanse of more than in the South Pacific Ocean. Its total land area is . Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia; this overseas collectivity of the French Republic is sometimes referred to as an overseas country. The island is located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the central Southern Pacific Ocean, and is divided into two parts: The bigger, northwestern part "Tahiti Nui" and the smaller, southeastern part "Tahiti Iti". The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous with surrounding coral reefs. The population is 183,645 inhabitants (2012 census), making it the most populous island of French Polynesia and accounting for 68.5 percent of its total population. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east. Polynesia ( from "poly" "many" + "nsos" "island") is a subregion of Oceania, made up of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are termed Polynesians and they share many similar traits including language family, culture, and beliefs. Historically, they were experienced sailors and used stars to navigate during the night.
candidates: french polynesia pacific ocean society islands
answer: society islands