Charles de Brosses (1709-1777)
President of the Parliament in Dijon (eastern France), and an enemy of Voltaire and absolute rule.
Published numerous writings including Geography of South Seas used by Cook.
First one to refer to Polynesia (French word "many islands")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Brosses

Micronesia 1840 Western Pacific, north of equator excluding Palau, Guam, and Northern Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands
published in Italian and Latin

Melanesia 1839 ("Black" islands - East Timor, PNG, Torres Strait, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji)
"Corso di Geografia Universale" published in Florence, Italy

Indonesian 1850 adjective "of the Indian" archipelago, East Indies
In 1850, George Windsor Earl, an English ethnologist, proposed the terms Indunesians—and, his preference, Malayunesians—for the inhabitants of the "Indian Archipelago or Malayan Archipelago". In the same publication, one of his students, James Richardson Logan, used Indonesia as a synonym for Indian Archipelago.

However, Dutch academics writing in East Indies publications were reluctant to use Indonesia, they preferred Malay Archipelago (Dutch: Maleische Archipel); the Netherlands East Indies (Nederlandsch Oost Indië), popularly Indië; the East (de Oost); and Insulinde.

After 1900, Indonesia became more common in academic circles outside the Netherlands.

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