'Pacific islands were among the last places that the pandemic touched due to their isolation with few ships available at the end of the First World War. One island steamer from New Zealand, the SS Talune, has the dubious distinction of having brought lethal influenza to Fiji, Samoa and Tonga in late 1918'

https://jmvh.org/article/pacific-island-societies-destabilised-by-infectious-diseases/