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Landmark Oceania archaeological

Wairau Bar

1280 CE – 1400 CE · 120 years

New Zealand's most significant early Polynesian settlement site, with burials containing moa eggs, adzes, and whale tooth pendants

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Great Barrier Reef

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers

Attested 2000 BCE – 1815 CE

Conflict · Oceania

Wars of Majapahit

1293 CE – 1527 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Komodo Island

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Tasmanian hunter-gatherers

Attested 2000 BCE – 1715 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Uluru (Ayers Rock)

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Māori

Attested 1279 CE – 1900 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Milford Sound

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1280 CE and 1400 CE.

1293 CE Wars of Majapahit 1280 CE Wieliczka Salt Mine 1282 CE War of the Sicilian Vespers 1296 CE Wars of Scottish Independence 1296 CE Anglo–Scottish Wars

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