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accidental migrants accidental settlement accidental voyages adzes Aitutaki America ancestors arrived Atiu atolls blown Buck canoe canoe with women Caroline Islanders central belt century Chathams colonization contact areas Cook Cook's course deliberate voyages derived distance distant islands double canoe early east Easter Island Eastern Polynesia Ellice Islands European contact evidence fact farther islands Fiji Fijians Fornander Gill groups Hawaii Hawaiian Hebrides journeys knew knowledge Kotzebue kumara land later long voyages Mangaia Mangareva Manihiki Maori Marianas Marquesas Micronesian migration miles missionaries moa-hunter moas Moerenhout navigation nesian North Island Ocean off-shore voyages Pacific Islands Pitcairn Poly Polynesian cultures Polynesian islands Polynesian Society Journal Ponape population pre-European prevailing winds Raiatea Raivivae Rarotonga recorded Rotuma Rurutu sailing Samoa Savaii ships shows stars storms Tahiti Tahiti-Tuamotu Tahitian Tahitian islands tion Tokelaus Tongan traditional names Tuamotus Tumutevarovaro Tupia two-way contact uninhabited vessels visited westerlies Williams winds and currents Zealand