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What was the last major habitable landmass on Earth to be settled by humans?
The ancestors of the Māori arrived in deliberate colonising voyages — double-hulled canoes navigated by stars and swells, without instruments — at the close of the Polynesian expansion.
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The Polynesian Expansion The Polynesian expansion was the settlement of the Pacific's islands by voyaging peoples — from the Lapita migrations of c. 1000 BC to the final pulse that reached Hawaii, Rapa Nui, and, last of all, New Zealand around 1250-1300 AD. Navigating by stars, swells, and birds in double-hulled canoes, it was the most audacious maritime achievement of the pre-modern world.
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