Researchers think that navigators from Polynesia might have landed in America much before Christopher Columbus did in 1492. Researchers feel that the Polynesian explorer might have chosen the Pacific Ocean route, and landed on that part of the shore.

Historians are now wondering if the first contact of the Native Americans with the outside world was indeed through Christopher Columbus. In references to historical achievements, the conquests of the Pacific Island explorers are often overlooked. Based on the fact that during that time Columbus had the best navigation technology, the abilities of other land-discoverers were questioned.

Many stories did their rounds to finally get Pacific Island explorers out of the list. They felt that discovery of land was beyond the navigational capabilities of ill-equipped primitive explorers. But what about the theory that was developed by the Europeans that the Earth was flat and sailing far away will topple them off the Earth?

On the other hand the explorers of the Pacific Islands were fearless. Even if they felt that the Earth was flat, they were brave and unflinching in their explorative zeal. Anthologists felt that Polynesian navigators sailed far and wide in hope of finding new lands.

But most of these endeavors were not documented. Due to the illiteracy of the Polynesian explorers, everything remained word-of-mouth. Whereas, when the Europeans travelled, much of it was documented and projected to the outside world. This is where the Polynesian explorers fell flat.

An examination of Polynesia’s orally transmitted historical inferences reveal their settlement patterns. Even cultural inferences raised a lot of interest, in that it perfectly tallied with certain elements of culture that was prevalent in ‘undiscovered America’.

A lot of prominent researchers, historians, academicians, anthropologists, anthologists, and scientists are engaging themselves to prove this fact. If proved it will be a big blow to conservative beliefs that America was discovered by the Europeans. Surely, it will be a big and controversial revelation if proved, that someone came much before Columbus.