so Polynesian culture developed from about 1000 BC in Tonga and Samoa, where they hung around for…

so Polynesian culture developed from about 1000 BC in Tonga and Samoa, where they hung around for two thousand years before an explosion of colonisation east to Hawaii, New Zealand, Easter Island; I guess I should have remembered the broad outline since I watched Moana, but it's still somewhat surprising that the Polynesian age of exploration only just preceded the European age of exploration,…