Today they are a single island nation but distance and cultural traits historically separate the northern atolls from the partially volcanic islands to the south. Polynesians discovered the southern islands by at least 1000 AD, and possibly much earlier. Studies of stone tools are providing us with exciting new evidence that settlement did not cure their wanderlust. All rights reserved.
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