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THE PACIFIC ISLANDS were first colonised by people moving out of Southeast and East Asia and eventually occupying every habitable island and archipelago except the Galapagos in the far east of the Pacific Ocean. Considering that the ocean is a vast expanse of water covering one-third of the earth’s surface, and that archipelagos are separated from each other by hundreds of kilometres, this feat was the most extraordinary accomplishment of colonisation performed by the human race in its entire history. A famous New Zealand anthropologist, Sir Peter Buck, called the farthest-flung of these people the ‘Vikings of the Sunrise’. The term is flattering to the Vikings, who never performed maritime feats in any way comparable, nor were their craft as capable. Moreover, the Vikings were an iron-age people, whereas the first explorers of the Pacific did not have any knowledge of metals, a lack that makes their achievements all the more remarkable.The histories of these scattered peoples before the coming of Europeans are obscured by the lack of written evidence. It is being filled in by archaeological research, though this will never be able to tell the stories of individual endeavour, or of

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Author

Ian C. Campbell

Publisher

Canterbury University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781927145029

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Australian & Oceanian History, Humanities