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Pacific Islands timeline
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
1568
Discovery of the Solomon Islands by a Spanish ship prompts interest in a possible
Terra Australis Incognita
('unknown southern land')
1643
Abel Tasman reaches yet more islands previously unknown to Europeans – Tonga and Fiji
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