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| c. 1300 BC |
| | Seafarers reach and colonize Fiji, lying between Melanesia and Polynesia | |
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| c. 200 BC |
| | Seafarers reach and colonize the Pacific island of Samoa | |
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| c. 1000? |
| | The huge stone heads standing on Easter Island are carved and erected at some time between the sixth and seventeenth century AD | |
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| 1521 |
| | Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan crosses the Pacific in ninety-nine days and reaches Guam | |
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| 1568 |
| | Discovery of the Solomon Islands by a Spanish ship prompts interest in a possible Terra Australis Incognita ('unknown southern land') | |
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