Years ago, on the Polynesian Islands, men had tattoos over their entire body.

若干年前，玻利尼西亚群岛上的人全身都刺上纹身。

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Sky-watchers flocked by the thousands to Polynesian islands or booked passage on cruise ships to see the total solar eclipse.

数以千计的天文观测者们聚集到波利尼西亚群岛（Polynesian islands）或预定游艇观看日全食。

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Perhaps some ancient settlers to the hemisphere traveled by boat along the seashore, or arrived by boats from the Polynesian islands.

也许是东半球的远古人沿着海岸乘着木舟而来，或者是波利尼西亚岛上的古人乘舟而来。

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Peter says the history of surfing goes back thousands of years in the Polynesian Islands.

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The Plastiki's name is wordplay off the "Kon-Tiki, " a balsa raft made famous by Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl, who in 1947 sailed the vessel from Peru to the Polynesian islands.

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How this tiny dot in the middle of the South Pacific came to be inhabited is the subject of some debate, but the most widely accepted theory is that Polynesian seafarers arrived from the west around 400 AD, perhaps from their nearest neighbour, the Pitcairn Islands.

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