timeline

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  • tonga discovery

    tonga discovery

    Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire both discovered tonga in 1616 with Abel tasman following soon after
  • new zealand discovery

    new zealand discovery

    the first people to arrive in new Zealand were the ancestors of the Maori. The first settlers probably came from Polynesia between 1200 and 1300 AD.
  • fiji discovery

    fiji discovery

    Abel Tasman discovered fiji in 1643 by accident including captain james cook in 1774
  • samoa discovery

    samoa discovery

    jacob roggeveen was the first person to discover samoa in 1722
  • Easter Island discovery

    Easter Island discovery

    Easter Island was discovered by European Jacob Roggeveen in 1722
  • Cook Islands discovery

    Cook Islands discovery

    in 1773 Captain James Cook discovered the Cook Islands

  • south island discovery

    The South Island was discovered in 1823 by James Spencer.