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Near Oceania (Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Bismarck Archipelago) was settled between 50,000 and 25,000 B.C.E. Remote Oceania (including Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa) was settled beginning about 1200 B.C.E.

Cite this page as: Steven Zucker, "pacificmapnew," in Smarthistory, December 31, 2016, accessed April 25, 2024, https://smarthistory.org/lapita/pacificmapnew-2/.