Austronesian navigation

Austronesian navigation

The Austronesians were some of the early people that crossed vast open seas and settled farflung islands in search of new land to settle. The Austronesian expansion around 2500 BC and onwards is widely considered by some contemporary scholars to be one of the great movements of population in history. Fact|date=January 2007


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