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flumpcakestoday at 12:46 PM1 replyview on HN

Who "owned" it before? There were no people on that land before it was settled.


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keyboredtoday at 1:39 PM

I don’t know terribly much about it. Wikipedia says that the British Government decided to colonize it in 1840.

Why did British people decide to move from the Northern Hemisphere to this island? Because the climate looked similar?

And yes, here is a dispute between a historically imperialist versus a settler state. It’s weird.