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  Pacific Islands timeline
     
c. 1300 BC
 
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Seafarers reach and colonize Fiji, lying between Melanesia and Polynesia      
c. 200 BC
 
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Seafarers reach and colonize the Pacific island of Samoa      
c. 1000?
 
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The huge stone heads standing on Easter Island are carved and erected at some time between the sixth and seventeenth century AD      
1521
 
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Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan crosses the Pacific in ninety-nine days and reaches Guam       
1568
 
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Discovery of the Solomon Islands by a Spanish ship prompts interest in a possible Terra Australis Incognita ('unknown southern land')       
1643
 
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Abel Tasman reaches yet more islands previously unknown to Europeans – Tonga and Fiji