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millions of years ago |
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these powerful reptiles had already begun their push eastwards |
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for any animal castaway |
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first hurdle would have been the 60-mile stretch of water |
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that separetes New Guinea from the next group of island-theSolomons |
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instead of one dominating island,like New Guinea |
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the Solomon are made up of almost a thousand smaller jewels |
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scattered along a 900-miles chain. |
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all these islands erupted out of the sea and were ripe for colonisation |