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Geographic Locations > Islands > Pacific Islands > Polynesia > Samoa
... > Environment and Public Health > Environment > Islands > Pacific Islands > Polynesia > Samoa
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Islands > Pacific Islands > Polynesia > Samoa
... > Geographic Locations > Oceania > Australasia > Pacific Islands > Polynesia > Samoa

Preferred term

Samoa  

Type

  • Geographical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Navigator Island
  • Navigator Islands
  • Samoa Islands
  • Samoan Islands

Note

  • an island group in Polynesia; AMERICAN SAMOA & INDEPENDENT STATE OF SAMOA are also available

Scope note

  • A group of islands in the southwest central Pacific, divided into AMERICAN SAMOA and the INDEPENDENT STATE OF SAMOA (Western Samoa). First European contact was made in 1722 by Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman. In 1768 they were named Navigators Islands by Louis de Bougainville. The present name may derive from that of a local chieftain or from a local word meaning place of the moa, a now-extinct island bird. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1061 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p481)

History note

  • 96; was see WESTERN SAMOA 1994-95

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018947

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