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Pages in category "Samoan-language surnames" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... This page was last edited on 18 October 2024, at 07:50 ...
Pages in category "Surnames of Samoan origin" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... This page was last edited on 8 March 2024, ...
Apia, capital of Samoa situated on Upolu island. Salelologa, main 'township' & ferry terminal on Savai'i island. ... This page was last edited on 31 January 2025, ...
Samoans or Samoan people (Samoan: tagata Sāmoa) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the Samoan language.The group's home islands are politically and geographically divided between the Independent State of Samoa and American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States of America.
The volcanic Samoa island chain may have been formed by the activity of the Samoa hotspot at the eastern end of the Samoa Islands. In theory, that hotspot was created by the movement of the Pacific tectonic plate over a 'fixed' deep and narrow mantle plume spewing up through the Earth's crust. One piece of evidence that this activity may have ...
Samoan Bios This page was last edited on 5 February 2025, at 22:15 (UTC). Text is available under the ... This page was last edited on 5 February 2025, ...
Chromograph map of Samoa - George Cram 1896. The Samoan Islands were first settled some 3,500 years ago as part of the Austronesian expansion.Both Samoa's early history and its more recent history are strongly connected to the histories of Tonga and Fiji, nearby islands with which Samoa has long had genealogical links as well as shared cultural traditions.
Samoa, [note 1] officially the Independent State of Samoa [note 2] and known until 1997 as Western Samoa (Samoan: Sāmoa i Sisifo), is an island country in Polynesia, consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono and Apolima); and several smaller, uninhabited islands, including the Aleipata Islands (Nuʻutele, Nuʻulua, Fanuatapu and Namua).