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1000 BCE–1300 CENew studyMarshallese stick chart in the Peabody Museum’s Pacific collection, Harvard University, photographed in 2012. A specifically Marshallese navigational teaching tradition—not a generic Polynesian map or evidence of all Pacific practices. The object’s maker and date are not established here. Daderot / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · Resized and converted to WebP · Licence terms
Communities explored and settled the Pacific through voyages requiring skilled navigation and capable ocean-going craft. This broad survey begins long before European arrival.
The killing of Gamilaraay people at Myall Creek exposes the violence accompanying settler expansion and the exceptional nature of the prosecutions that followed.
An agreement between Māori rangatira and the British Crown became central to New Zealand’s history. Its Māori and English texts conveyed different understandings of authority.
A long campaign secured overwhelming support for removing two discriminatory provisions from the Australian Constitution, while the wider struggle for equality continued.
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