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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume I
- Part I Rethinking the Pacific
- Part II Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean
- Part III Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific
- Part IV The Initial Colonization of the Pacific
- 16 Pleistocene Voyaging and Maritime Dispersals in the Pacific
- 17 Early Maritime Navigation and Cultures in Coastal Southern China, Taiwan, and Island Southeast Asia, 6000–500 BCE
- 18 New Guinea’s Past: The Last 50,000 Years
- 19 Austronesian Colonization of the Pacific Islands, 1200 bce–1250 ce
- 20 Seafaring and Colonization in the Southern Ocean, 1000 ce–1850 ce
- 21 Polynesians in Central-South Chile
- Part V The Evolution of Pacific Communities
- Part VI Europe’s Maritime Expansion into the Pacific
- References to Volume I
- Index
20 - Seafaring and Colonization in the Southern Ocean, 1000 ce–1850 ce
from Part IV - The Initial Colonization of the Pacific
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2022
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume I
- Part I Rethinking the Pacific
- Part II Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean
- Part III Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific
- Part IV The Initial Colonization of the Pacific
- 16 Pleistocene Voyaging and Maritime Dispersals in the Pacific
- 17 Early Maritime Navigation and Cultures in Coastal Southern China, Taiwan, and Island Southeast Asia, 6000–500 BCE
- 18 New Guinea’s Past: The Last 50,000 Years
- 19 Austronesian Colonization of the Pacific Islands, 1200 bce–1250 ce
- 20 Seafaring and Colonization in the Southern Ocean, 1000 ce–1850 ce
- 21 Polynesians in Central-South Chile
- Part V The Evolution of Pacific Communities
- Part VI Europe’s Maritime Expansion into the Pacific
- References to Volume I
- Index
Summary
The Southern Ocean is the continuous sea that circles the globe between the Roaring Forties and the Screaming Sixties, latitudinal names that aptly describe its intimidating character for seafaring, and its Pacific sector is discussed here. Long thought to be occupied by a southern continent, the existence of the Southern Ocean was not fully established by European voyaging until the end of the eighteenth century, but Tasmania and southern Chile had been inhabited since the last Ice Age, and New Zealand for about 800 years. Their histories are different but they disclose similar adaptations of subsistence and settlement patterns to the cool climates and rich marine and coastal resources of the Southern Ocean. From the early nineteenth century in Tasmania and New Zealand, and somewhat earlier in Chile, a serial influx of European sealers, whalers, and settlers brought severe resource competition, social disruption, and demographic depression to the Indigenous societies. They responded, in varying degrees, by engaging in globalized commerce, creating hybrid technologies, and forming mixed-race communities.
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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean , pp. 457 - 479Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023