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40,000 BCE
Aborigines arrive in Australia
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Period: 1500 BCE to 1000 BCE
1000 BCE Lapita people spread across Polynesia
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300
Polynesians settle the Marquesas and Hawaiian islands
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700
Polynesians settle Easter Island
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1000
Polynesians arrive in New Zealand Great fleet
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Moa Bird becomes extinct forcing Maori people to change their way of living
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Captain Cook arrives in New Zealand
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Fiji Becomes a British Colony
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1000 BCE Lapita people spread across Polynesia
