I've heard this described as why would they have stopped exploring and colonizing. So it makes a lot of sense that they would have continued looking for any ha

I've heard this described as why would they have stopped exploring and colonizing. So it makes a lot of sense that they would have continued looking for any habitable island or land. On the other side of the pacific, Hawaiian oral stories have some indication that they reached Central America from the islands. Referring to the place they found as a land of frogs.