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Were Pacific Islander cultures ever sufficiently remote/detached to consider the entire world as simply an ocean dotted by chains of islands? If so, did they have a name or ideological/religious concept for this theoretically "endless ocean"?

by /u/Spades54 in /r/AskHistorians

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