Early 19th century Rarotongan missionaries to the Samoa islands were followed by a group of Western missionaries led by of the (Congregationalist) London Missionary Society in the 1830s, officially bringing Christianity to Samoa. Less than a hundred years ...
On the surface, American influence appears very strong in American Samoa, especially considering Pago Pago’s giant police cruisers and modern shopp...
remains a mystery, though this may have been the period of great migrations that led to the settlement of present-day Polynesia: Samoa is recognized as the center of Polynesia, whence people migrated eastward to the Marquesas, southward to Niue and the Pukapuka islands of Rarotonga, and ...
The article presents information on the history of Samoa. The Samoan islands 2,000 years ago were inhabited by migrants from Southeast Asia. In the early 1700s, Europeans had inhabited the land but did not intensify until the arrival of English missionaries and traders in the 1830s. From Germ...
Until 1997, the western islands were known as Western Samoa or Samoa I Sisifo to distinguish them from the nearby group known as American Samoa or Amerika Samoa. The distinction was necessitated by the partitioning of the archipelago in 1899. All Samoans adhere to a set of core social values...
A French overseas territory in the south-central Pacific Ocean comprising some 120 islands, including the Society, Marquesas, and Austral islands and the Tuamotu archipelago. Papeete, on the island of Tahiti, is the capital. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. ...
Toward the end of the 19th century, conflicting interests of the U.S., Britain, and Germany resulted in an 1899 treaty that recognized the paramount interests of the U.S. in those islands west of 171°W (American Samoa) and Germany's interests in the other islands (Western Samoa). New...
Although debated among historians, many believe that the Samoan Islands were originally inhabited as early as 1000 bc. Thus, the division between American and independent Samoa is very recent and pre-Western history of both Samoan groups... D Willis - Springer Netherlands 被引量: 2发表: 2008年...
southwest of the continental United States and northwest of American Samoa. It is made up of eight main islands — Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau, and Kahoʻolawe — plus several uninhabited islands and islets. Its capital is Honolulu, located on the island of Oahu. Ha...
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