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Yes absolutely. I do think that the "this huge habitable continent had nobody living on it when we came here" is a bit much, though. I guess it could be an oversight but I would also suspect it is a bit of poetry to have an untrustworthy narrative about how nobody knows if any indigenous people were there when settlers arrived, and maybe it was empty, just waiting to be colonized.
tbh i have no idea how huge the island of Le Caillou is. Joyce calls it "a pebble", but she also claims that the entire island is able to sustain 200 million people, and Revachol is a metropolis with an "80 km radius" (that's slightly larger than LA, even if we assume that radius doesn't apply equally in all directions).
But yes, it seems unlikely that something that large wasn't settled permanently for thousands of years when it's part of an island continent with several ancient seafaring cultures.