AHC: Spanish Polynesia

With any pre-1900 POD you like, have a modern-day Spanish dependency in the Pacific similar in extent and character to OTL French Polynesia.
 
I know it's not in the Greater Polynesia region but Micronesia was Spanish for quite a while before selling it to the Germans. If you avert the Spanish-American War, then maybe Spain might keep the area even after potentially decolonizing the Philippines. If you somehow manage to make Spain take over Panama (again), which would be super hard due to the Monroe Doctrine and Panama potentially needing notable autonomy to even accept Spanish ownership, it'd be much easier for Spain to reach their Pacific possessions (by the way, keeping Puerto Rico and/or Cuba also help in this scenario, of course).
 
I know it's not in the Greater Polynesia region but Micronesia was Spanish for quite a while before selling it to the Germans. If you avert the Spanish-American War, then maybe Spain might keep the area even after potentially decolonizing the Philippines. If you somehow manage to make Spain take over Panama (again), which would be super hard due to the Monroe Doctrine and Panama potentially needing notable autonomy to even accept Spanish ownership, it'd be much easier for Spain to reach their Pacific possessions (by the way, keeping Puerto Rico and/or Cuba also help in this scenario, of course).

Ha, we could of course have Napoleon I decide not to invade and occupy Spain, possibly resulting in Spain retaining more of its New World territories, with these in turn providing bases from which to control a Spanish territory in the Pacific. The low population of such a territory would make it easier to maintain - cf. France's retention of French Polynesia, Wallis et Futuna, and New Caledonia, while having lost their African territories and Indochina.
 
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