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But the map misses out the epic migration of people from Solomon Islands and Indonesian archipelago to the furthest reaches of Oceana, sailing to places like Tonga and Samoa on primitive sails made of bark and bamboo some 3400 years ago, using extraordinary navigation skills for their time but more importantly displaying probably the most impressive feat of human ambition and courage. Then they did not stop there, but continued to sail eastward across the Pacific all the way East to Eastern Polynesia and the Hawaii thus completing the most recent wave of human global colonisation and arguably the most ambitious migration in human history, even more so than the prehistoric crossing of the Bering Strait.
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Including Easter Island?
Ah thats part of Polynesia
Yes the ‘Papa Nui’ (Easter Island) is at the eastern tip of Polynesian triangle. The way I remember it is like this: Large imaginary triangle in the middle and lower part of the Pacific ('‘The Oceana’). The apex in north is made by Hawaii, the southwest base is made of NZL, the southeast base of Easter Island, and Tahiti in the centre! mid way between the apex and southwest base lies Samoa. There are over a thousand islands in the triangle.
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