Andres Moreno-Estrada
New research claiming indigenous Americans traveled to Polynesia is sensational, but the science is flawed and ignores other evidence.
While most Fijian settlement is coastal, new research into mountain settlements can teach us about this country pre-colonisation. Pictured is the Seseleka hill fort, 420 metres above sea level.
Patrick Nunn
New research casts light on the pre-colonial mountain settlements in Fiji.
Queen Marau, 1889, by Sophia Hoare.
Collection du Musée de Tahiti et des îles – Te Fare Manaha
She left Sydney Ladies’ College at 14 to marry an alcoholic future king. But the life of Queen Marau deserves to be written outside the shadow of her royal husband.