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Samoa - Polynesian Culture, Tapa Cloth, Fa'a Samoa: Although some Samoan values and customs have changed markedly since European contact, particularly in Apia, Samoans have strived to preserve the fa‘a Samoa (“Samoan way of life”); thus, many traditions and outward features of rural life have remained virtually unchanged. Most Samoan villages have a church and a meetinghouse, which ...
Savaiʻi volcano, as seen from the NASA's EO-1 satellite in July 2010. Savaiʻi is the largest and highest island both in Samoa and in the Samoan Islands chain. The island is also the sixth largest in Polynesia, behind the three main islands of New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands of Hawaii and Maui. While it is larger than the second main ...
American Samoa [c] is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the South Pacific Ocean. Centered on 14.3°S 170.7°W, it is southeast of the island country of Samoa, east of the International Date Line and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, west of the Cook Islands, north of Tonga, and some 500 kilometers ...
Find out below in our list of the islands of Samoa. 1. Upolu. Upolu might be the smaller of the two main islands of Samoa, but it’s the first that comes to mind as the island where most people in Samoa live. It’s also your arrival island, and most visitors’ initial experience is the short drive between the airport and the bustling hub of ...
Oral tradition holds that the Samoan archipelago was created by the god Tagaloa at the beginning of history. Until 1997, the western islands were known as Western Samoa or Samoa I Sisifo to distinguish them from the nearby group known as American Samoa or Amerika Samoa. The distinction was necessitated by the partitioning of the archipelago in ...
Palolo Deep Marine Reserve. A marine biodiversity area with a diverse array of coral and fish species, Palolo Deep Marine Reserve is a 5 minute walk from central Apia. Find out more. Upolu.
Upolu. / 13.917°S 171.750°W / -13.917; -171.750. Upolu is an island in Samoa, formed by a massive basaltic shield volcano which rises from the seafloor of the western Pacific Ocean. The island is 75 kilometres (47 miles) long and 1,125 square kilometres (434 square miles) in area, making it the second largest of the Samoan Islands by ...
