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First human settlement > Date: Date or period of the first known or suspected human settlement within each geographic location listed. For further descriptions, please refer to notes.
First human settlement > Notes: Description of the first known or suspected human settlement within each geographic location listed. For the date or period of the described settlement, please refer to the according date stat.
First human settlement > Place: Location of the first known or suspected human settlement in each country.

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STAT	Antarctica	Canada
First human settlement > Date	1948 AD	25,000-40,000 BP
First human settlement > Notes	First permanent base in mainland Antarctica, operated by the Chilean Army.	Human-worked mammoth bone flakes found at Bluefish Caves, Yukon, are much older than the stone tools and animal remains at Haida Gwaii in British Columbia (10-12,000 BP) and indicate the earliest known human settlement in North America .
First human settlement > Place	Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme	Bluefish Caves

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