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round 3,000 BCE, groups of people began their historic voyages from southeast Asia and Pacific islands such as New Guinea to discover the wealth of tropical islands dotted around the Pacific Ocean. Their first stop was the Solomon Islands, then the Vanuatu archipelago, before reaching the Fijian islands, Samoa and Tonga by around 1600 BCE. From there, voyagers sailed to eastern Polynesia and the Cook Islands by 300 BCE before venturing thousands