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The modern city of Apia was founded in the 1850s, and it has been the official capital of Samoa since 1959. [3] Seumanutafa Pogai was high chief until his death in 1898. The harbour was the site of a notorious 15 March 1889 naval standoff in which seven ships — from Germany, the US, and Britain — refused to leave the harbour, even though a ...
In 2013 an exhibition of photographs reflecting German colonial life, entitled 'To Walk Under Palm Trees – The Germans in Samoa' was extremely popular. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In 2015 the Auckland War Memorial Museum donated the exhibition Entangled Islands: Sāmoa, New Zealand and the First World War to the museum for display. [ 13 ]
The city's most beautiful section is the walled Old City (Vieux Quebec), known for its 19th-century buildings and cobbled lanes lined with bistros, boulangeries, and boutiques. Getty Images You ...
John LaFarge, Portrait of Faase, the Taupou of the Fagaloa Bay (1881) Satellite photo, east side of Upolu with Fagaloa Bay on the north coast. (NASA photo).Fagaloa is located on the north eastern coast of Upolu island in Samoa.
Image credits: mamacrocker #6. Switzerland. Grindelwald, Lauterbrunnen, Interlaken area. I was there in Summertime. Winter looks beautiful too but snow is not my thing.
Studio photo depicting the Samoa ʻava ceremony, 1911 Two men fishing from canoe, 1914. Faʻa Sāmoa, the unique traditional culture and way of life in Samoan society, remains strong in Savaiʻi, where there are fewer signs of modern life and less development than on the island of Upolu, where the capital, Apia, is located.
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