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They're generated by underwater landslides and earthquakes |
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Known as tsunamis, |
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they can flatten coastlines |
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Yet these destructive forces may have also brought life to some islands |
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As tsunamis strike the coast, |
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rafts of vegetation could be cast adrift |
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Perhaps animals were caught up in those rafts too |
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Could this have been the answer to how these animals made it to Fiji? |
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After all, they are the hardest of their kind and could have survived long sea journeys |
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Fiji's first animals washed up tens of millions of years ago |
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But humans were slow off the block |
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They only arrived here three and a half thousand years ago |
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Their history remains thin on the ground |
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The ruins of Nan Madol are one of only two ancient cities ever found in the Pacific |
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With archaeological evidence so scarce, |
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the origins of the first people in the central Pacific were hotly debated |
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Were they Papuans From New Guinea, |
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native Indians from the Americas, |
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or another race of people from Asia |