The Austronesian people settled most of the islands of the Pacific, even Madagascar off the African coast. With this achievement, how come they did not settled that island-continent called Australia?
>>3044870
>Hey dude, there's that big island there..
>Nah, fuck Australia
>>3044870
I won't hazard a guess as I don't know the ethnic group very well. But I would like to observe that I was aware that the corners of Polynesia - NZ, Hawaii, and Easter Island - were the last habitable places on earth to be settled by human beings, all circa 1,000 years ago (or more if one accepts the graphic). I guess I just didn't know that it was the so-called Austronesians who did it, then.
Austronesians are Indonesians, Malays, Filipinos, Polynesians, Taiwanese aborigines, Malagasy, and more. It's just really mindboggling how they missed that island-continent.
>>3044870
Because they never colonized the Melanesian islands which were already occupied.
>>3044870
>Out of Formosa
That's just hypothesis.
>>3044870
They feared the abo warrior
>>3044870
Papua new guineans are bloodthirsty sons of bitches and wildlife probably killed any attempts at non abo settlements.
>>3044896
So basically the shitskin of Asia and pacific islanders?
>>3045033
No they exist there.