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The Bajau people of the Sulu Sea, between the Philippines and Kalimantan (Borneo), live in houses built over the sea, well away from land. This is part of a community near Semporno, in Sabah.

“The four continents that make up the rim of the mighty Pacific Ocean were the last great areas on earth to be settled by humans. The first people to look out on the Pacific arrived on its western shores from Africa more than a million years ago, but their descendants only completed that occupation 1000 years ago, with the discovery of the islands of Polynesia.

The cultures which arose around the Pacific Rim have a history as rich and complex as any in Europe or the Mediterranean, yet until recently there was little interest in the West in the origins and achievements of half the inhabitants of the planet…”

From “Man on the Rim: the peopling of the Pacific” by Alan Thorne, 1988.
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