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What wind, currents and geography tell us about how people first settled Oceania

  • Written by Alvaro Montenegro, Assistant Professor of Geography and Director Atmospheric Sciences Program, The Ohio State University
imageLooks like paradise – but how did the first people get there?Global Environment Facility, CC BY-NC-ND

Just look at a map of Remote Oceania – the region of the Pacific that contains Hawaii, New Zealand, Samoa, French Polynesia and Micronesia – and it’s hard not to wonder how people originally settled on these islands....

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