New Zealand's Maori may have discovered Antarctica 1,300 years before Westerners, study says kyma.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kyma.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
For decades, historians and scientists believed Antarctica was discovered by Europeans and Americans. But according to a new study, it may have been New Zealand's indigenous Maori people who first laid eyes on the icy landscape.
A study by New Zealand researchers found that Polynesians may have been the first to discover the Earth's southernmost continent, Antarctica, dating back t