他指出，从环太平洋缓慢生长的珊瑚中获得的气候数据表明，在拉皮塔扩张时期，厄尔尼诺现象曾频繁爆发，这很不寻常。

He points out that climate data obtained from slow-growing corals around the Pacific indicate a series of unusually frequent El Ninos around the time of the Lapita expansion.

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在几个世纪的时间里，拉皮塔人扩展了他们的边界，从巴布亚新几内亚的丛林覆盖的火山延伸到汤加最孤独的珊瑚离群。

Within the span of several centuries, the Lapita stretched the boundaries of their world from the jungle — clad volcanoes of Papua New Guinea to the loneliest coral outliers of Tonga.

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我飞往艾图塔基岛(aitutaki)，这是一个典型的热带岛屿，岛上的珊瑚礁泻湖被棕榈树环绕。

I was heading for Aitutaki, which, with its palm-fringed coral lagoon, is the archetypal tropical island.

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