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108 relations: Aleipata Islands, Alofaaga Blowholes, American Samoa, Apia, Apolima, Apolima Strait, Archaeology of Samoa, Archipelago, Architecture of Samoa, Atoll, Aunu'u, Beach fale, Coming of Age in Samoa, Coordinated Universal Time, Copra, Endemism, Fa'a Samoa, Fa'amatai, Fanuatapu, Fiji, Fracture zone, Geography of Samoa, German Empire, German Samoa, Green sea turtle, Hawaii, Hawaii (island), Hawaii hotspot, Hawksbill sea turtle, Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone, Lalomanu, Lapita culture, Lata Mountain, League of Nations, Lithosphere, Lotofaga, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Magma, Manono Island, Mantle plume, Manu'a, Mata o le Afi, Mau movement, Mauga Afi, Maui, Mount Matavanu, Mulifanua, Nafanua, Namua, NASA, ..., New Zealand, Nu'ulopa, Nu'ulua, Nu'usafe'e Island, Nu'utele, Oceania, Ofu-Olosega, Outer trench swell, Pacific Ocean, Pacific Plate, Pago Pago, Phreatomagmatic eruption, Plate tectonics, Political geography, Polynesia, Polynesians, Poutasi, Princeton University Press, Rift, Ring of Fire, Rose Atoll, Samoa, Samoa hotspot, Samoan Civil War, Samoan culture, Samoan language, Samoan tālā, Samoans, Savai'i, Seamount, Second Samoan Civil War, Siege of Apia, Silisili, Subaerial, Submarine earthquake, Swains Island, Ta‘ū, Tafuna, American Samoa, Territories of the United States, Tokelau, Tokelauan language, Tonga, Tonga Trench, Treaty of Berlin (1889), Tripartite Convention, Tropical cyclone, Tutuila, Tuvaluan language, United Kingdom, United Nations trust territories, United States, United States dollar, Upolu, Vailulu'u, Volcanic cone, Volcano, Volcanology, 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami. Expand index (58 more) »
Aleipata Islands
The Aleipata Islands is a group of four uninhabited islands off the eastern end (the historical Aleipata region) of Upolu Island, Samoa, with an aggregate area of 1.68 km²).
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Alofaaga Blowholes
The Alofaaga Blowholes, also known as the Taga Blowholes, are a natural feature located in the district of Palauli, south west of Salelologa wharf on the island of Savai'i in Samoa.
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American Samoa
American Samoa (Amerika Sāmoa,; also Amelika Sāmoa or Sāmoa Amelika) is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Samoa.
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Apia
Apia is the capital and the largest city of Samoa.
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Apolima
Apolima is the smallest of the four inhabited islands of Samoa and situated in the Apolima Strait, between the country's two largest islands Upolu to the east and Savai'i to the west.
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Apolima Strait
The Apolima Strait is about 13 km wide and separates the two largest islands of Samoa, the island of Savai'i to the northwest, and Upolu to the southeast.
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Archaeology of Samoa
Archaeology of Samoa began with the first systematic survey of archaeological remains on Savai'i island by Jack Golson in 1957.
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Archipelago
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
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Architecture of Samoa
The architecture of Samoa is characterised by openness, with the design mirroring the culture and life of the Samoan people who inhabit the Samoa Islands.
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Atoll
An atoll, sometimes called a coral atoll, is a ring-shaped coral reef including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon partially or completely.
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Aunu'u
Aunu'u is a small volcanic island off the southeastern shore of Tutuila in American Samoa.
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Beach fale
A beach fale is a simple thatched hut in Samoa.
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Coming of Age in Samoa
Coming of Age in Samoa is a book by American anthropologist Margaret Mead based upon her research and study of youth – primarily adolescent girls – on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands.
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Coordinated Universal Time
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Copra
Copra is the dried meat or kernel of the coconut, which is the fruit of the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera).
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Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Fa'a Samoa
Fa'a Samoa in the Samoan language means The Samoan Way, and describes the socio-political & traditional-customary way of life of the Samoan culture.
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Fa'amatai
Fa'amatai is the chiefly system of Samoa, central to the organization of Samoan society.
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Fanuatapu
Fanuatapu is an uninhabited island which consists of a volcanic tuff ring, situated off the eastern tip of Upolu, Samoa.
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Fiji
Fiji (Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी), officially the Republic of Fiji (Matanitu Tugalala o Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी गणराज्य), is an island country in Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island.
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Fracture zone
A fracture zone is a linear oceanic feature—often hundreds, even thousands of kilometers long—resulting from the action of offset mid-ocean ridge axis segments.
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Geography of Samoa
The independent country of Samoa consists of the two large islands of Upolu and Savai'i and 8 smaller islands located about halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand in the Polynesian region of the South Pacific.
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German Empire
The German Empire (Deutsches Kaiserreich, officially Deutsches Reich),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people.
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German Samoa
German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) was a German protectorate from 1900 to 1914, consisting of the islands of Upolu, Savai'i, Apolima and Manono, now wholly within the independent state Samoa, formerly Western Samoa.
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Green sea turtle
The green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), also known as the green turtle, black (sea) turtle or Pacific green turtle, is a large sea turtle of the family Cheloniidae.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.
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Hawaii (island)
Hawaiʻi is the largest island located in the U.S. state of Hawaii.
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Hawaii hotspot
The Hawaii hotspot is a volcanic hotspot located near the namesake Hawaiian Islands, in the northern Pacific Ocean.
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Hawksbill sea turtle
The hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) is a critically endangered sea turtle belonging to the family Cheloniidae.
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Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone
The Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone is a convergent plate boundary that stretches from the North Island of New Zealand northward.
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Lalomanu
Lalomanu is a village on the east coast of Upolu island in Samoa.The village is part of the electoral constituency (Faipule District) Aleipata Itupa i Luga which is within the larger political district of Atua.
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Lapita culture
The Lapita culture was a prehistoric Pacific Ocean people who flourished in the Pacific Islands from about 1600 BCE to about 500 BCE.
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Lata Mountain
Lata Mountain is the highest point of American Samoa, on the island of Ta'u, and is located in the Manu'a Islands.
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League of Nations
The League of Nations (abbreviated as LN in English, La Société des Nations abbreviated as SDN or SdN in French) was an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
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Lithosphere
A lithosphere (λίθος for "rocky", and σφαίρα for "sphere") is the rigid, outermost shell of a terrestrial-type planet, or natural satellite, that is defined by its rigid mechanical properties.
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Lotofaga
Lotofaga is a village on the south coast of Upolu island in Samoa.
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Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811) was a French admiral and explorer.
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Magma
Magma (from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma) meaning "thick unguent") is a mixture of molten or semi-molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and is expected to exist on other terrestrial planets and some natural satellites.
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Manono Island
Manono is an island of Samoa, situated in the Apolima Strait between the main islands of Savai'i and Upolu, 3.4 km WNW off Lefatu Cape, the westernmost point of Upolu.
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Mantle plume
A mantle plume is an upwelling of abnormally hot rock within the Earth's mantle, first proposed by J. Tuzo Wilson in 1963.
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Manu'a
Manua, or the Manua Islands Group (Samoan: Manua tele), in the Samoan Islands, consists of three main islands: Taokinau, Ofu and Olosega.
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Mata o le Afi
Mata o le Afi is a volcano on the island of Savai'i in the South Pacific nation of Samoa.
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Mau movement
The Mau was a non-violent movement for Samoan independence from colonial rule during the first half of the 20th century.
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Mauga Afi
Mauna Afi is a volcanic mountain on the island of Savai'i in Samoa.
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Maui
The island of Maui (Hawaiian) is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km2) and is the 17th-largest island in the United States.
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Mount Matavanu
Mt Matavanu is an active volcano on the island of Savai'i in Samoa.
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Mulifanua
Mulifanua is a village on the north-western tip of the island of Upolu, in Samoa.
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Nafanua
Nafanua is a famous Samoan Warrior Princess and a legend in Polynesian mythology.
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Namua
Namu'a is a small uninhabited island off the east coast of Upolu island in Samoa.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Nu'ulopa
Nu'ulopa is a small uninhabited island in the Apolima Strait between the islands of Upolu and Savai'i in Samoa.
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Nu'ulua
Nu'ulua, not to be confused with Nu'ulua 200 meters west of Ofu, is an island in Samoa in the Aleipata Islands situated more than 1.3 km from the eastern end of Upolu in Samoa.
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Nu'usafe'e Island
Nu'usafe'e Island is a small uninhabited island in Samoa.
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Nu'utele
Nu'utele is an island which consists of a volcanic tuff ring situated 1.3 km off the eastern end of Upolu island, Samoa.
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Oceania
Oceania is a geographic region comprising Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and Australasia.
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Ofu-Olosega
Ofu and Olosega are parts of a volcanic doublet in the Manu‘a Group of the Samoan Islands—part of American Samoa.
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Outer trench swell
The outer trench swell, outer trench high, or outer rise is a subtle ridge on the seafloor near an oceanic trench, where a descending plate begins to flex and fault in preparation for its descent into the mantle at a subduction zone.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
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Pacific Plate
The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean.
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Pago Pago
Pago Pago (Samoan:; pronounced pahng-oh pahng-oh)Harris, Ann G. and Esther Tuttle (2004).
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Phreatomagmatic eruption
Phreatomagmatic eruptions are volcanic eruptions resulting from interaction between magma and water.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the τεκτονικός "pertaining to building") is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3 and 3.5 billion years ago.
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Political geography
Political geography is concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures.
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Polynesia
Polynesia (from πολύς polys "many" and νῆσος nēsos "island") is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.
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Polynesians
The Polynesians are a subset of Austronesians native to the islands of Polynesia that speak the Polynesian languages, a branch of the Oceanic subfamily of the Austronesian language family.
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Poutasi
Poutasi is a village on the south east coast of Upolu island in Samoa.
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Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
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Rift
In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics.
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Ring of Fire
The Ring of Fire is a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.
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Rose Atoll
Rose Atoll, sometimes called Rose Island or Motu O Manu by people of the nearby Manu'a Islands, is an oceanic atoll within the U.S. territory of American Samoa.
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Samoa
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa (Malo Saʻoloto Tutoʻatasi o Sāmoa; Sāmoa) and, until 4 July 1997, known as Western Samoa, is a unitary parliamentary democracy with eleven administrative divisions.
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Samoa hotspot
The Samoa hotspot is a volcanic hotspot located in the south Pacific Ocean.
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Samoan Civil War
The First Samoan Civil War refers to the conflict between rival Samoan factions in the Samoan Islands of the South Pacific.
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Samoan culture
The traditional culture of Samoa is a communal way of life based on Fa'a Samoa, the unique socio-political culture.
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Samoan language
Samoan (Gagana faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa – IPA) is the language of the Samoan Islands, comprising the Independent State of Samoa and the United States territory of American Samoa.
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Samoan tālā
The tālā is the currency of Samoa.
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Samoans
Samoans or Samoan people (tagata Sāmoa) are a Polynesian ethnic group native to the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the Samoan language.
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Savai'i
Savaii is the largest (area 1,694 km2) and highest (Mt Silisili at 1,858 m) island in Samoa and the Samoan Islands chain.
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Seamount
A seamount is a mountain rising from the ocean seafloor that does not reach to the water's surface (sea level), and thus is not an island, islet or cliff-rock.
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Second Samoan Civil War
The Second Samoan Civil War was a conflict that reached a head in 1898 when Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States were locked in dispute over who should have control over the Samoan island chain, located in the South Pacific Ocean.
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Siege of Apia
The Siege of Apia, or the Battle of Apia, occurred during the Second Samoan Civil War in March 1899 at Apia.
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Silisili
Mount Silisili is the highest peak in Samoa and the Samoa Islands chain.
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Subaerial
In natural science, subaerial (literally "under the air"), has been used since 1833, in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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Submarine earthquake
A submarine, undersea, or underwater earthquake is an earthquake that occurs underwater at the bottom of a body of water, especially an ocean.
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Swains Island
Swains Island (Samoan: Olosega; Tokelauan: Olohega) is an atoll in the Tokelau chain.
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Ta‘ū
Ta‘ū is the largest island in the Manu‘a Group and the easternmost volcanic island of the Samoan Islands.
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Tafuna, American Samoa
Tafuna' is a village on the east coast of Tutuila Island, American Samoa.
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Territories of the United States
Territories of the United States are sub-national administrative divisions directly overseen by the United States (U.S.) federal government.
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Tokelau
Tokelau (previously known as the Union Islands, and officially as Tokelau Islands until 1976;; lit. "north-northeast") is an island country and dependent territory of New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean.
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Tokelauan language
Tokelauan is a Polynesian language spoken in Tokelau and on Swains Island (or Olohega) in American Samoa.
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Tonga
Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited.
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Tonga Trench
The Tonga Trench is an oceanic trench located in the south-west Pacific Ocean.
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Treaty of Berlin (1889)
The Treaty of Berlin (1889) was the concluding document of the conference at Berlin in 1889 on Samoa.
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Tripartite Convention
The Tripartite Convention of 1899 concluded the Second Samoan Civil War, resulting in the formal partition of the Samoan archipelago into a German colony and a United States territory.
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Tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain.
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Tutuila
Tutuila is the largest and the main island of American Samoa in the archipelago of Samoan Islands.
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Tuvaluan language
Tuvaluan, often called Tuvalu, is a Polynesian language of or closely related to the Ellicean group spoken in Tuvalu.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United Nations trust territories
United Nations trust territories were the successors of the remaining League of Nations mandates, and came into being when the League of Nations ceased to exist in 1946.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.
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Upolu
Upolu is an island in Samoa, formed by a massive basaltic shield volcano which rises from the seafloor of the western Pacific Ocean.
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Vailulu'u
Vailulu'u is a volcanic seamount discovered by geophysicist Rockne Johnson in the Samoa Islands on October 18, 1975.
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Volcanic cone
Volcanic cones are among the simplest volcanic landforms.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
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Volcanology
Volcanology (also spelled vulcanology) is the study of volcanoes, lava, magma, and related geological, geophysical and geochemical phenomena.
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2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami
The 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami took place on 29 September 2009 in the southern Pacific Ocean adjacent to the Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoan_Islands
