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To: rdl6989

Given the ocean currents Polynesians from Easter Island could have taken the current across the Pacific to the Chilean coast and went up north. The distance is over 1,150 miles to South America.


13 posted on 07/08/2020 9:45:34 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan
The distance is over 1,150 miles to South America.

There are no short distances in Polynesia.

17 posted on 07/08/2020 9:51:50 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after an election.)
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Madagascar was helped settled by a small group of Malagasy[Indonesian] who made the 5000 mile trip around the 1200 ad timeline. The Ocean currents always leads to new stuff.
34 posted on 07/08/2020 11:24:07 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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