Geography and history of the
islands of Samoa are interesting.
Samoa has gone through the rules of United States, Germany and also New Zealand as each of these three countries were interested to rule in these beautiful
island of Samoa. Some part of this
island have become the part of US and is known as the American
Samoa. But
Samoa has gained its independence from Germany and then New Zealand through their
freedom movement known as the Mau
Movement. People started living in these
islands from very ancient time that dates back to 1000 B.C.
Geographically Samoa is an archipelago that is comprised of ten
islands. Among these
islands the two large
islands are Savaii and Upolu. Other eight are small islets. All these
islands are of volcanic origin. But apart from Savaii, no other
islands in Samoa archipelago are volcanically active.
Samoa is located in the Polynesian region almost in between Hawaii and New Zealand.
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