Tu'i Aotearoa

120 million years ago, the Ontong Plateau never sank. Instead, area around it rose out of the ocean.

85-65 million years ago, the continent of Zealandia fell, but with it never fell the Coleville and Kermadec Ridges where the islands of Fiji and Tonga are based, nor the Vanuatuan and Noumean Ridges to the west of them.

Over the course of the next million years that followed, endemic species adapted in the area like the Noumean crow and the Aotearoan bat, and the Pacific Ring of Fire evolved much more differently than in our own timeline.