240. Who Discovered the Americas? (English Vocabulary Lesson)
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The Origins of Polynesia
Polynesia stretch from Hawaii in the north to New Zealand in the southwest and Easter Island or Rapa Nui in the southeast. This is a massive area, filled mainly with thousands of kilometres of ocean and tiny island settlements like Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti, Nui and the Cook Islands. And this makes it one of the most remarkable colonisations in history. Polynesian people were perhaps the greatest navigators ever. They sailed without any technology but could understand the stars, waves, flights of seabirds, types of seaweed and position of the clouds. The great European explorers of the 15th century could not navigate the oceans as well as polynesian people did.
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