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There are no entry fees for the park, but visiting is expensive because of the cost of travel to American Samoa. Round trips from Honolulu cost about $1,000. Then there’s the cost of getting to ...
Watch live as King Charles III and Queen Camilla depart Samoa on Friday, 25 October, after a four-day visit. The royal couple visited the Polynesian nation, which is hosting a major gathering of ...
KVZK-TV began broadcasting on October 5, 1964, as the first television service in American Samoa and the first educational broadcaster in the South Pacific. [8] The station was a massive effort with a staff of 500 producing programming from four different studios to air over six separate channels.
The National Park of American Samoa was established on October 31, 1988, by Public Law 100-571 [8] but the NPS could not buy the land because of traditional communal land system. This was resolved on September 10, 1993, when the National Park Service entered into a 50-year lease for the park land from the Samoan village councils.
American Samoa [c] is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the South Pacific Ocean.Centered on , it is 40 miles (64 km) 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 310 miles (500 km) south of To
Emhoff will meet with government officials, community leaders and female entrepreneurs during his July 23-24 visit to Samoa's capital, Apia. Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala ...
Pago Pago Harbor on Tutuila Island in American Samoa is one of the world's largest natural harbors. [2] The capital, Pago Pago, is located on the inner reaches of the harbor, close to its northwesternmost point. It has the highest annual rainfall of any harbor in the world. [3]
It was coined by the American Samoa student Taulealo Vaofusi, the winner of a naming competition, and assigned in 2000. [2] [4] The Nafanua cone is named after a Samoan war goddess, Nafanua. [5] Today the seamount is part of the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa. [6]