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The prehistory of Oceania is divided into the prehistory of each of its major areas: Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, and these vary greatly as to when they were first inhabited by humans — from 70,000 years ago (Near Oceania) to 3,000 years ago (Remote Oceania).
Easter Islanders claimed that a chief Hotu Matuꞌa [205] discovered the island in one or two large canoes with his wife and extended family. [206] They are believed to have been Polynesian . Around 1200, Tahitian explorers discovered and began settling the area.
The ancestors of the people of these islands came from Southeast Asia by two different groups at separate times. The first, an Australo-Melanesian people and the ancestors of modern-day Melanesians and Australian Aboriginals, came to New Guinea and Australia about 40,000 to 60,000 years ago.
It was created sometime between 1899 and 1914, when Germany had control of the Carolines. The first two German priests arrived in the Carolines in 1903 to work alongside the remaining Spanish priests. One of the two, Salesius Haas, was assigned to Yap where he taught German to island students. [70]
A few years later, a Spanish expedition led by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós made the first recorded European landing in the islands when he set foot on Rakahanga in 1606, calling it Gente Hermosa (Beautiful People). [3] The country is named after British captain Captain James Cook who surveyed and landed on some of the islands between 1774 and 1777.
The first contact of European navigators with the western edge of the Pacific Ocean was made by the Portuguese expeditions of António de Abreu and Francisco Serrão, via the Lesser Sunda Islands, to the Maluku Islands, in 1512, [5] [6] and with Jorge Álvares's expedition to southern China in 1513, [7] both ordered by Afonso de Albuquerque ...
King Edward I (1272-1307) created a law saying anyone caught using whiteners in bread would be put in the public pillory for one hour. #30 TIL Linda Chase left her roommate's dead body in the ...
Millennia in Oceania (31 C) Years in Oceania (42 C) * European colonisation in Oceania (7 C, 17 P) + History of American Samoa by period (4 C)