| Bark canoes are not dugouts https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/atsi-collection/cul... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Canoes Also indigenous to the Sahul * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torres_Strait_Islanders who lived on islands and travelled between PNG and Queensland, Australia but didn't venture south past the Great Barrier Reef and to New ZEaland - but did have the boats and seafaring skills. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makassar_people who lived in (modern) Indonesia but routinely traded and fished between Northern Australia and China * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanging again, they never (to current knowledge) travelled around and past the Great Barrier Reef. |