Oceania

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  Ancient Oceania

  Oceania consists of the islands of Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea, and the Melanesian, Micronesian and Polynesian island groups of the South Pacific. The first of these...

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  Timeline of Australian history

  The earliest inhabitants of Australia, its indigenous people, probably reached the continent between about 60,000 and 50,000 years ago—possibly earlier. They crossed from...

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  Timeline of New Zealand history

  New Zealand was originally settled by people from eastern Polynesia around 1250 AD. Their descendants became known as the Maori. New Zealand was then home to giant flightless...

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