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  2. Europeans in Oceania - Wikipedia

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    European exploration and settlement of Oceania began in the 16th century, starting with the Spanish landings and shipwrecks in the Mariana Islands, east of the Philippines. This was followed by the Portuguese landing and settling temporarily (due to the monsoons) in some of the Caroline Islands and Papua New Guinea. Several Spanish landings in ...

  3. History of Oceania - Wikipedia

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    Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (or VOC) was a major force behind the Golden Age of Dutch exploration (category; c. 1590s–1720s) and Netherlandish cartography (c. 1570s–1670s). In the 17th century, the VOC's navigators and explorers charted almost three-quarters of the Australian coastline, except the east coast.

  4. Colonisation of Oceania - Wikipedia

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    The colonisation of Oceania includes: Colonisation of Australia; Colonisation of New Zealand; Colonisation of the Pacific islands; See also. Europeans in Oceania;

  5. Exploration of the Pacific - Wikipedia

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    In 1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and encountered the Pacific Ocean, calling it the South Sea. In 1521, a Spanish expedition led by the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan was the first recorded crossing of the Pacific Ocean, Magellan then naming it the "peaceful sea."

  6. Oceania - Wikipedia

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    The first settlers of Australia, New Guinea, and the large islands just to the east arrived more than 60,000 years ago. [16] Oceania was first explored by Europeans from the 16th century onward. Portuguese explorers, between 1512 and 1526, reached the Tanimbar Islands, some of the Caroline Islands and west New Guinea. Spanish and Dutch ...

  7. European colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    European colonizationof the Americas. During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonization of the Americas, involving a number of European countries, took place primarily between the late 15th century and the early 19th century. The Norse explored and colonized areas of Europe and the North Atlantic, colonizing Greenland and creating a short ...

  8. Indigenous peoples of Oceania - Wikipedia

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    The European proportion are not recent immigrants, but rather descendants of early settlers, as the islands were not always within the sphere of Japanese colonial influence. [18] Islanders primarily speak Japanese, and like with those in the eastern Pacific, they could be interpreted as one of the smaller linguistic groups in Oceania. [16]

  9. History of the Pacific Islands - Wikipedia

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    The History of New Zealand dates back to at least 700 years to when it was discovered and settled by Polynesians, who developed a distinct Māori culture centred on kinship links and land. The first European explorer, the Dutch Abel Tasman, came to New Zealand in 1642. From the late 18th century, the country was regularly visited by explorers ...

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