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1400 BCE
the Polynesians had explored and settled the eastern, northern and southern Pacific.
By the fifteenth century CE, the Polynesians had explored and settled the eastern, northern and southern Pacific. -
1200 BCE
The Polynesian explorers made their way south
In approximately 1000 CE, the Polynesian explorers made their way south to the largest of the Polynesian islands — Aotearoa or, as we know it, New Zealand. Aotearoa presented a very different climate and environment for its Polynesian settlers to adapt to -
1000 BCE
Canoes reached sumoa
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982 BCE
The Lapita arrived in Polynesia
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1018
They set sail again
One thousand years later they set sail again, moving east across 3000 kilometres of open ocean.