1 OCTOBER 2014
World history looks different from the small island nations of the Pacific Ocean. The first settlers are said to have arrived some 30,000 years ago, which must have been an incredible achievement, not only to discover the arts of boat building, sailing and navigation, but to have had the spirit, the courage, the drive to explore, travel and discover.
Other migrations came over the next millennia, each leaving a fragile fingerprint, adding a cultural layer until, in 1568 a white person floated by, enabling the land to be ‘discovered.’ Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña was the first European to visit the Solomon Islands archipelago, naming it Islas Salomón, imagining it to be a place of great riches.
Source: NewEurope