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New Guinea’s second neighbor was the much smaller islands of the Bismarck and the Solomon Archipelagoes to the east.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

In particular, the Tongan Archipelago lies close enough to the Fijian, Samoan, and Wallis Archipelagoes to have permitted regular voyaging between archipelagoes, and eventually to permit Tongans to undertake the conquest of Fiji.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

However, the colonization of both the Bismarck and the Solomon Archipelagoes northeast of New Guinea, by 35,000 years ago, required further overwater crossings of dozens of miles.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

But peoples of New Guinea’s north and east coasts, and of the Bismarck and Solomon Archipelagoes north and east of New Guinea, present a more complex picture.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Whatever may have been the precise origin of the Dhalac and Farsan Archipelagoes, the greater number of the banks on the eastern side of the Red Sea seem to have originated through nearly similar means.

From Coral Reefs by Darwin, Charles