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DescriptionPolynesian Migration.svg	Català: Una projecció ortogràfica de la Polinèsia English: An orthographic projection of Polynesia, created from the same data as File:Worldmap_location_NED_50m.svg with gringer's perlshaper script. Inkscape was used to add colour, clip the land, and add migration arrows.
Date	5 August 2008
Source	Own work. Dates and arrows are based on Chambers (2008), with additional colouring and styling guided by discussion with Geoff Chambers 2008-2011 as part of my PhD project: Chambers, G (2008). Genetics and the Origins of the Polynesians, In: Encylopedia of Life Sciences. doi:10.1002/9780470015902.a0020808 Eccles, D (2011). Genomic Analysis of Human Population Structure, PhD Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Migration arrows are supported by the following sources: From Taiwan through Melanesia to Polynesia, and earlier migration to Australia and New Guinea: Yoshan Moodley, Bodo Linz, Yoshio Yamaoka, Helen M. Windsor, Sebastien Breurec, Jeng-Yih Wu, Ayas Maady, Steffie Bernhöft, Jean-Michel Thiberge, Suparat Phuanukoonnon, Gangolf Jobb, Peter Siba, David Y. Graham, Barry J. Marshall, and Mark Achtman (2009). The Peopling of the Pacific from a Bacterial Perspective, Science 23 January 2009: 323 (5913), 527-530. doi:10.1126/science.1166083 Colonisation of East Polynesia, and dispersal to more remote islands (including Hawaii, Easter Island, and New Zealand): Janet M. Wilmshurst, Terry L. Hunt, Carl P. Lipo, and Atholl J. Anderson (2011). High-precision radiocarbon dating shows recent and rapid initial human colonization of East Polynesia, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, February 1, 2011, vol. 108 no. 5, 1815-1820. doi:10.1073/pnas.1015876108
Author	David Eccles (Gringer (talk))
Permission (Reusing this file)	Please attribute this work to David Eccles (gringer). This map, created by David Eccles (Rangitāne o Wairau) is based on linguistic, social, genetic, archaeological, and radiocarbon dating data and traces the migration routes of the Polynesian population, including the discovery of New Zealand by Māori. An earlier version of the map is included in the introduction of David's [PhD thesis].
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current	01:07, 22 March 2026	551 × 551 (404 KB)	Gringer	File uploaded using svgtranslate tool (https://svgtranslate.toolforge.org/). Added translation for id.
	00:57, 22 March 2026	551 × 551 (402 KB)	Gringer	File uploaded using svgtranslate tool (https://svgtranslate.toolforge.org/). Added translation for mk.
	00:24, 22 March 2026	551 × 551 (398 KB)	Gringer	File uploaded using svgtranslate tool (https://svgtranslate.toolforge.org/). Added translation for fr.
	23:08, 21 March 2026	551 × 551 (394 KB)	Gringer	Reverted to version as of 22:43, 21 March 2026 (UTC); maybe zh-tw/zh-ch will get fixed in the future
	23:04, 21 March 2026	551 × 551 (394 KB)	Gringer	Reverted to version as of 23:00, 21 March 2026 (UTC) [nan doesn't seem to work]
	23:03, 21 March 2026	551 × 551 (395 KB)	Gringer	Try nan-hant-tw
	23:00, 21 March 2026	551 × 551 (394 KB)	Gringer	Try again with chinese language hant/hans
	22:43, 21 March 2026	551 × 551 (394 KB)	Gringer	Reorder chinese translations to try to get them to display properly
	22:34, 21 March 2026	551 × 551 (394 KB)	Gringer	Fix up translation intentation, zh-tw
	22:10, 21 March 2026	551 × 551 (394 KB)	Gringer	File uploaded using svgtranslate tool (https://svgtranslate.toolforge.org/). Added translation for zh-hans.