
From the Vault: Pacific Navigation, Part 1
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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Uh, Uh - And I'm Always Fascinated by the Waves of Migration
The migration began before the birth of christ, while europeans were sailing close to the coast line s of continents. Voyagers from fiji, tonga and samoa began to settle islands in an ocean area of over ten million square miles. The settlement took a thousand years to complete, and involve finding and fixing in mind the position of islands on which the highest landmark was a coconut tree. By the time european explorers entered the pacific ocean in the sixteenth century, almost all the habitable islands had been settled for hundreds of years.
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