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I'm more surprised that the Maori only arrived in New Zealand like a 1000 years ago.
They had to come pretty far and it required quite sophisticated maritime technology
I always compartmentalised the Polynesian triangle expansion as somewhere around 0-400 AD for some reason.
New Zeeland being settled for a shorter time than Iceland just seems strange to me.
There's smaller hops from island to island and the distance is shorter, e.g. here is NZ if it was in the northern hemisphere with the same distance from NZ - Australia depicted as NZ - Scotland
I understand why, but I think of Iceland as a recent venture (relatively speaking). It is a bit like having to recalibrate that Rome never conquered the highlands of Sardinia. There were just guys up there intermittently raiding their settlements for 1000 years.
wait what, really? OH MY GOD COOL, eternal guerillas resisting the great satan?
i think they had an early expansion and then the big one, no?
Around the same time Vikings settled Iceland.