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Australia_and_Oceania timeline
c. 50 million years ago
Australia becomes a separate land mass, isolating its living creatures. They evolve into many species unique to the area
c. 60,000 years ago
The first human inhabitants of Australia make the crossing from southeast Asia
c. 1300 BC
Seafarers reach and colonize Fiji, lying between Melanesia and Polynesia
c. 200 BC
Seafarers reach and colonize the Pacific island of Samoa
c. 1000?
The huge stone heads standing on Easter Island are carved and erected at some time between the sixth and seventeenth century AD
1521
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan crosses the Pacific in ninety-nine days and reaches Guam
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