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Polynesian expansion access Pacific

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    Polynesian Expansion Dates

  • 6000 BC

    6000 BC
    Migrants leave Taiwan for Melanesia

  • 4000BC

    4000BC
    Migrants leave the Soloman Islands for whatt we know as New Caledonia.l

  • 2500 BC

    2500 BC
    Migrants continue further to Fji, Samoa and Tonga.

  • 200 CE

    200 CE
    Samoa migrants contine on to what we know as the Marquesas Islands.

  • 300 CE

    300 CE
    Island of Rapa Nui ( Easter Island) is occupied by migrants from Marquesas Islands.

  • 400 CE

    400 CE
    Hawaii is settled by migrants from the Marquesas Islands.

  • 800 CE

    800 CE
    Maori settlers leave the cook islands for Aotearoa ( New Zealand).

  • 1000 CE

    1000 CE
    Almost all Islands are settled.