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

Preferred term

Samoa  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • 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)

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Entry terms

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

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In other languages

  • Samoa

    French

  • Iles Samoa
  • Îles Samoa

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-GX4GJ8T3-H

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