Tahitian Vanilla is a plant found only in Tahiti. But now geneticists have traced its origins to Central America. See http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/34243/title/Tracing_Tahitian_vanilla
This is only the latest in a number of recent discoveries
see http://porkupineblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/polynesians-beat-europeans-to-america.html
and http://porkupineblog.blogspot.com/2005/07/polynesians-in-california.html
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