About population

Australia is alot closer to New Zealand than Antarctica yet there was no rafting incidents that led Aboriginals populating NZ. NZ remainded uninhabited until discovered by Moari in the 13th century.

True, and my alternative timeline idea has Captain Cook discovering a virgin continent. But this seems more entertaining.

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Man the Polynesians are so damned ASB conveniantly discovering allot of places just before the Europeans also. A timeline where Tasman, Drake and Cook find most pacific Islands and New Zealand uninhabited would be a whole lot more plausable than OTL!

Add Madagascar, which was only settled in the last thousand years as well by another Austronesian people, and you've got yourself a deal.

Actually, it sounds like a possibly interesting timeline. You should spin it up a bit and see what turns out. All these tiny uninhabited islands through the pacific, who would take them, and why?