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Why was Polynesia the last part of Oceania to be settled?

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The Polynesian Settlement of the Pacific. ... By the time European explorers entered the Pacific Ocean in the 16th century almost all the habitable islands had been settled for hundreds of years. The voyaging was all the more remarkable in that it was done in canoes built with tools of stone, bone, and coral.

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