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Period: 2000 BCE to 1499 BCE
First Travellers begin to move from Asia through the Islands
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Period: 1500 BCE to 1000 BCE
The Lapita people spread across Polynesia
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1000 BCE
Samoa is settled
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Period: 300 to 500
Hawaiian islands settled
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700
Polynesians settle Rapa Nui (Easter Islands)
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1000
Polynesians arrive at Aotearoa (New Zealand)
