the Polynesians may well have been the first from the old world to make it to the new world in South America, maybe a group got shipwrecked off the coast. The P

the Polynesians may well have been the first from the old world to make it to the new world in South America, maybe a group got shipwrecked off the coast. The Polynesians were very good sailors who knew how to sail between far flung islands in the enormous Pacific Ocean, as can be attested by their ancestral travels outwards from Asia to Australia, the last being the Maori who made it to New Zealand in the 1300s.