[00:11.978]The ancestors of these Solomon Islanders
[00:14.924]made that initial 60-mile crossing some 30,000 years ago.
[00:31.165]Whether their ancestors paddled across in hollowed-out tree trunks like these,
[00:35.530]or floated on giant bamboo rafts, no one knows.
[00:55.602]And with land occasionally in sight,
[00:58.723]they would have surely been tempted to investigate.
[01:14.202]By the time people arrived,
[01:15.980]the Solomons were packed with almost a quarter of the plants and animals found in New Guinea
[01:26.197]including their old adversary, the saltwater crocodile.