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	The Samoan Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tagaloa threw into the water a boulder which became the island of Manu'a, then sent down a seawoman fashioned from another boulder, and a vine for shelter.
		The islands of Samoa were settled approximately fifteen Centuries before the Common Era, having up to three thousand years for the culture to develop before it was to alter with the coming of Christian missions.
		The most distinctive feature of the Samoan community today is the church, and villages usually have more than one, rpresenting different Christian denominations.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/poly/samoan.html (541 words)

	Samoa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The eastern islands became territories of the United States, the Tutuila islands in 1900, and officialy Manua in 1900 and today are known as American Samoa.
		The Samoas are of volcanic origin and the total land area is 2934 sq km, consisting of the two large islands of Upolu and Savai'i which account for 96% of the total land area, and eight small islets: Manono, Apolima, Nuutele, Nuulua, Namua, Fanuatapu, Nuusafee and Nuulopa.
		The main island of Upolu is home to nearly three-quarters of Samoa's population and its capital city is Apia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ISO_3166-1:WS (1109 words)

	American Samoa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American Samoa (Samoan: Amerika Samoa) is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the South Pacific Ocean, to the southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa.
		The main (largest and most populous) island is Tutuila, with the Manu‘a Islands, Rose Atoll, and Swains Island also included in the territory.
		It has been estimated that a Samoan male (either an American Samoan, or a Samoan living in the 50 United States) is 40 times more likely to play in the NFL than a non-Samoan American.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Samoa (747 words)

	Samoan Snail Field Guide - Introduction
		As for most islands of the Pacific, many of the plants and animals of the Samoan Islands are found nowhere else on earth.
		Snails are an important part of the fauna of the Samoan Islands, and so it seemed worthwhile to produce this manual, with the aim of bringing this information together in a form accessible both to the interested but inexperienced amateur and to professional scientists, conservationists and land managers working in the Pacific.
		Land snails on islands in the Pacific are classic examples of the kinds of patterns expected as organisms disperse to new islands and then radiate to produce many new species.
	www2.bishopmuseum.org /PBS/samoasnail/fgintro.html (3651 words)

	A'asu Valley Project - Study Area
		It is considered part of the "Polynesian Triangle" of islands that stretch from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in the east, to New Zealand in the west, and as far north as the Hawaiian Islands.
		The nearest major islands to the Samoan archipelago are Tonga, located approximately 750 miles to the south-southwest, and Fiji, approximately 780 miles to the southwest.
		The bulk of the island's mountains are basalt, basaltic tufts, and lava.
	www.tamug.tamu.edu /samoa/a_asu/study_area.htm (666 words)

	ChooHoo! Samoa :: Samoan Tattoo
		The Samoan Islands were first seen by Europeans in 1722 when three Dutch ships commanded by Jacob Roggewein visited the eastern island known as Manua.
		The Dutch ships lay at anchor off the islands for several days, but members of the crew did not venture ashore and apparently did not even get close enough to the natives to realize that they were not wearing silk breeches, but tattooing on their legs.
		Until he is tattooed, no matter how old he may be, the Samoan man is still considered and treated as a boy...Tattooing is the beautification of the body by a race who, without metals, without clay, express their feelings for beauty in the perfection of their own glorious bodies.
	choohoo.com /tattoos.php (1023 words)

	Currents Magazine - Voyage to Vailulu'u (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The result is a trail of progressively older islands and re-submerged, now-extinct seamounts, extending from the young Hawaiian islands to the older Emperor Seamount Chain.
		They noted that the islands aligned with the northern plate boundary of Tonga Trench, a vast slab of the Pacific Plate that is colliding with the neighboring Indo-Australian Plate and plunging beneath it.
		The rocks from all the islands and the new undersea volcano were, chemically speaking, the progeny of the same mantle source.
	www.whoi.edu /home/about/currents9_no1_vailulu.html (3243 words)

	Samoan Hurricane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Samoan Archipelago consists of four principal islands and quite a number of smaller ones, the intermost is Savaii the largest of all, then east of it is Upolu the most-important one commercially and politically.
		This condition arose particularly from the peculiarities and inherent traits of the Samoan character, and was aggravated by the selfishness, jealousy, interference, and ambition of the foreign residents with the natives - and between themselves.
		On the occasion of the Samoan hurricane, the southern coast of Upolu was struck by the storm wave, which destroyed a stone church and a plantation of 500 coconut trees.
	www.history.navy.mil /library/online/samoan.html (8110 words)

	SAMOANET - American Samoa - History of the Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By 1900 the Samoan islands were being claimed by both Germany and the United States.
		By 1940, the Samoan islands had become a training and staging area for the u.s.
		It was this massive influx of Americans that gave Samoans a sudden taste of the benefits of a modern western society.
	www.samoanet.com /americansamoa/history/astahist.html (312 words)

	History (from Samoa) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		, the Samoan archipelago was a central hub for migrating Polynesian settlers.
		The territory, which is part of Polynesia, includes the six Samoan islands east of the 171° W meridian.
		The island country of Samoa (formerly Western Samoa), located in the south-central Pacific Ocean, is one of the smallest countries in the world.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-229091?tocId=229091&ct= (822 words)

	History of American Samoa
		Migrants from Southeast Asia arrived in the Samoan islands more than 2,000 years ago and from there settled the rest of Polynesia further to the east.
		The eastern islands became territories of the United States in 1904 and today are known as American Samoa.
		The 1907 Catholic Encyclopedia wote of Samoa, "A group of islands situated in latitude 13§30' and 14§30' south and longitude 168§ and 173§ west, and composed principally of fertile mountainous islands, such as Savai'i, Upolu, Tutuila, Manu'a, of volcanic and coral formations.
	www.historyofnations.net /oceania/americansamoa.html (684 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Samoan tropical moist forests (OC0112)
		The Western Samoan islands of Savai’i and ‘Upolu make up 90 percent of the archipelagos’ land area and are separated from Tutuila and Aunu’u Islands of American Samoa by 64 km of ocean.
		Savai’i Island is the second highest in Polynesia outside of Hawaii and New Zealand and supports large populations of many of Samoa’s endemic plant and bird species.
		The Samoan Islands are delineated as an Endemic Bird Area due to the presence of 11 endemic bird species (Stattersfield et al.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/oc/oc0112_full.html (1686 words)

	Samoa - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The western islands becameknown as Western Samoa (now just Samoa), passing from German control to New Zealand in 1914°.′ N1962°.′ Wern Samoa was thefirst Pacific Island country to gain its independence.
		The Samoas are of volcanic origin and the total land area is 2934sq km, consisting of the two large islands of Upolu and Savai'i which account for 96% of the total land area, and seven small islets: Manono, Apolima, Nuutele, Nuulua, Namua, Fanuatapu, Nuusafee and Nuulopa.
		The main island of Upolu is home to nearly three-quarters of Samoa'spopulation and its capital city is Apia.
	www.aaez.biz /?t=Samoa (877 words)

	Treaties
		Whereas, the Islands of the Samoan Group lying east of Longitude 171 degrees west of Greenwich were, on the 16th day of February, 1900, by arrangement between the Governments of Germany, Great Britain, and the United States of America, placed under the protection of the Government of the United States of America;
		The Islands of Tutuila, of the Samoan Group and all other islands of the group east of Longitude 171 degrees west of Greenwich are hereby placed under the control of the Department of the Navy, for a Naval Station.
		In accordance with the foregoing, the Islands of Tutuila, of the Samoan Group, and all other islands of the group east of Longitude 171 degrees west of Greenwich, are hereby established into a Naval Station to be known as the Naval Station, Tutuila, and to be under the command of a Commandant.
	www.asbar.org /Newcode/treaties.htm (2982 words)

	The Samoan Islands at the turn of the century
		Germany renounces in favor of the United States of America all her rights and claims over and in respect to the island of Tutuila and all other islands of the Samoan group east of longitude 171 degrees west of Greenwich.
		The harbor of Pago Pago was on the coast of the newly acquired island of Tutuila, which afforded a valuable station in the Pacific, especially in view of the proposed isthmian canal and consequent growth of United States trade in the East.
		The Samoan archipelago is by reason of its geographical position in central Polynesia, lying in the course of vessels from San Francisco to Auckland, from Panama to Sydney and from Valparaiso to China and Japan, and from being outside the hurricane track, the most valuable group in the south Pacific.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_IV/samoanisl_df.html (509 words)

	Samoan Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Samoan Islands are located in the South Pacific about 1,800 miles east of New Zealand and 2,400 miles southwest of Hawaii.
		The eastern islands are a United States territory, while the western islands are an independent country.
		Almost 100% of the Samoan people are Christian and it plays a big part in their life.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/pacific/samoanculture.html (348 words)

	Samoa, or Samoan Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The first examination of the islands which might be called a survey was made by Commodore Wilkes of the United States navy in 1839.
		The total population of the islands is about 40,000, 1,000 being Europeans.
		Robert Louis Stevenson, it may be remembered, died on one of the Samoan Islands in 1894.
	www.factopia.com /aiton-encyclopedia-vol4/samoa-samoan-islands.htm (303 words)

	e-Hawaii Message Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This was a recreation of their sister island homes in SAMOA as the children of Savai'i settled new lands in the east from Western Polynesia.
		Hamoa coast of Maui island is directly facing Upolu point of Hawai'i, these sister islands were named by the original Polynesians to recreate familiarity in Hawaii using their original island home names from Samoa (Hamoa).
		Samoan islands were given the name by Europeans as the NAVIGATOR ISLANDS due to the large number of voyaging outrigger canoes, competent sailors, and large canoe builders.
	www.e-hawaii.com /forums/post.asp?method=ReplyQuote&REPLY_ID=167&TOPIC_ID=30&FORUM_ID=16 (4105 words)

	Samoa - What's New?
		At the last moment, only a few miles from the northern shores of Savaii island, the western-most island of the Samoan group, Olaf cyclone, considered more potent than Ofa and Valerie of 1990 and 1991, changed course and veered to the east, passing along the northern coasts of Upolu, and Tutuila in American Samoa.
		Ta'u is a group three islands, comprising the easternmost islands of the Samoan archipelago (with Rose Island further to the east, an atoll inhabited only by sea birds).
		A hat-trick of Pacific Island PhDs at the University of Auckland.
	www.samoa.co.uk /frontpage.html (3529 words)

	New Zealand and Samoa
		This resulted in the infamous "dawn raids" of the 1970s when island overstayers were singled out by immigration authorities and islanders were stopped at random in the streets and asked for their passports.
		And so it is that when a NZ Samoan excells in rugby they are regarded as "own sons" by all of Samoa and these same NZ Samoans retain considerable affection for the home of their ancestors.
		The high proportion of Samoans in the All Blacks (roughly one third of the team?) can instead be attributed to their natural athleticism and the cultural value the Samoan community place on that.
	www.uidaho.edu /clubs/womens_rugby/RugbyRoot/Rugby/Countries/Samoa/nz.html (2117 words)

	Samoan Islands -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Samoa, which shares the Samoan archipelago with American Samoa, consists of nine islands west of longitude 171° W—Upolu, Savai'i, Manono, and Apolima, all of which are inhabited, and the uninhabited islands of...
		To the east of 150° W the relief of the ocean floor is considerably less pronounced than it is to the west.
		The island is of volcanic origin, and it measures roughly 46 miles (74 kilometers) long and 16 miles (26 kilometers) across at its widest point.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9276876 (846 words)

	Western Samoa \| Samoan Islands \| The Rock \| South Pacific \| Travel \| Holiday \| The Rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		These islands were first inhabited about 3,000 years ago and are considered the heart of the Polynesian culture.
		saw Samoa and named the islands The Navigator Islands because of all the Samoans sailing small canoes far from the sight of land.
		Sea is a Samoan delicacy that is made from the innards of a sea slug.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p342.htm (636 words)

	University of Delaware: GEORGE HANDY BATES SAMOAN PAPERS
		The material gathered by Bates in his investigation of the Samoan situation prior to the Berlin Conference includes publications by the Samoangovernment and financial records for the Apia Agency and the Deutsches Handels and Plantagen Gesellschaft.
		A photocopy of Jan Thurston's Report of the Condition of the Samoan Islands, issues of the Tonga Government Blue Book and Samoa Times, and a copy of Arthur Gordon's British Despotism in the South Sea Islands are also included in these papers.
		A copy of the calendar to the Bates Samoan Papers, prepared by William D. Lewis in 1942, is available with the print finding aid in the University of Delaware Library, Special Collections.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/bates_g.htm (1806 words)

	Samoan Sensation - Samoa Films
		Pepe is a young Samoan living a life of defiance against his father's search for money and success and the Christianity of contemporary Samoan society in favor of the values and beliefs of "traditional" Samoa.
		Shows a young Samoan couple and their daughter who decide to emigrate over the objections of their families, the sadness of the parting, and the eventual reconciliation of the youmg people with their parents upon their leaving.
		Synopsis: The Samoan tattoo, or Tatau, is renowned throughout the Pacific for its unique markings and placement, and remains a unique symbol of Samoa.
	www.samoa.co.uk /samoan-film-video.html (5519 words)

	Navy Art Gallery exhibit: The Alfred Agate Collection: The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
		The islands also proved an attraction for some of the expedition's sailors, but the Tahitians themselves assisted in their capture, eager for the $10 bounty for each one apprehended.
		98-89-CK The squadron rendezvoused at Pago Pago on the island of Tutuila in mid-October.
		The Samoan Islands were of particular interest to the expedition because they were a major stopping place for traders and whalers, but their reefs were poorly charted and the islanders had a reputation for hostility.
	www.history.navy.mil /ac/exploration/wilkes/wilkes8.html (429 words)

	Food drive scheduled to aid Samoan islands - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		A relief effort for the residents of the storm-ravaged Samoan islands is being organized here in hopes of filling two cargo containers with food by Jan. 26.
		Gus Hannemann, a legislative liaison for American Samoa, said officials still are assessing the damage from tropical Cyclone Heta to his island home of 70,000 people, who are eligible to receive federal disaster aid.
		The twin islands of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa and home to 200,000, are the bigger worry, he said.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2004/Jan/08/ln/ln29a.html (318 words)

	AllRefer.com - Upolu (Pacific Islands Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		163,000), Western Samoa, S Pacific, the most populous of the Samoan islands.
		The island is well watered, and its fertile soil yields cacao, rubber, bananas, and coconuts.
		Apia, the capital of Western Samoa, is the chief port and major city of the island.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/U/Upolu.html (190 words)

	A Virtual Travel to Samoa - Malotuto'atasi o Samoa - Tourism Samoa, Polynesia, South Pacific
		The Polynesian group of islands known as Samoa consists of two main islands Upolu and Savai'i and seven smaller islets.
		Up-to-date news of all the islands of the South Pacific.
		Siapo, also known as tapa, a symbol of Samoan culture, is one of the oldest Samoan cultural art forms; the site also shows Siapo artists and artworks.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/samoa.htm (756 words)

	American Samoa
		International rivalries in the latter half of the 19th century were settled by an 1899 treaty in which Germany and the US divided the Samoan archipelago.
		The US formally occupied its portion - a smaller group of eastern islands with the noted harbor of Pago Pago - the following year.
		Although technically considered "unorganized" in that the U.S. Congress has not passed an Organic Act for the territory, American Samoa is self-governing under a constitution that became effective on July 1, 1967.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/american_samoa (371 words)

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