AD 1100

Around this time statues erected on platforms in Easter Island

AD 1100

Around this time beginnings of organized societies in Hawaiian Islands

AD 1100

Around this time Polynesians reach Pitcairn Island

AD 1150

Around this time Maoris begin to settle in the river mouth areas in the north of the South Island, New Zealand

AD 1200

Around this time, on the Micronesian island of Pohnpei, work begins on the massive megalithic city of Nan Madol

AD 1200

Hawaii is colonised again, by people from Tahiti

AD 1200

Polynesians settle Rekohu (the Chatham Islands) east of New Zealand

AD 1250

Beginnings of intensive valley irrigation schemes in Hawaiian Islands

AD 1300

Hawaiian peoples start to develop class structure as a result of economic growth through agriculture

AD 1300

Around this time stone temple complexes are erected on Rarotonga, Cook Islands, and on Moorea Island in the Society Islands

AD 1300

Huge stone statues erected on Easter Island

AD 1350

Legendary leader Roy Mata is active in the islands of central Vanuatu

AD 1350

First terrace-type fortifications built on North Island, New Zealand

AD 1400

Around this time Tonga people build major ceremonial centre at Mu'a, on the largest island in the Tongatapu Group, South Pacific Ocean

AD 1400

Widespread cultivation of wet taro in Hawaiian islands

AD 1400

Over the next 100 years, production of moai (stone figures) on Easter Island reaches its height

AD 1450

Art and rituals of the 'birdman' religion on Easter Island begin to develop

AD 1500

Around this time a village of oval stone houses is built on Easter Island

AD 1511

Portuguese navigators begin to explore the Pacific

AD 1513

Vasco de Balboa claims Pacific Ocean, and all islands it touches, for Spain

AD 1521

Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sees the atoll of Pukapuka, Tahiti