The Complete Guide to Cook Islands (Video)

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Banaba Island

Banaba Island (also Ocean Island), an island in the Pacific Ocean, is a solitary raised coral island west of the Gilbert Island chain and 300 km east of Nauru.  It is part of More »

Palau – The Republic of Palau

Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, 500 miles (800 km) east of the Philippines and 2,000 miles (3,200 km) south of Tokyo.   In 1978, More »

Fakarava (Island of French Polynesia)

  Located 450km northeast of Tahiti, Fakarava is the 2nd biggest atoll of French Polynesia: 60km long, 21km wide for 16km² of emerged land with a 1121km² lagoon. Some 855 inhabitants of More »

Hawaii

Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states (August 21, 1959), and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in More »

Marquesas Islands

The first recorded settlers of the Marquesas were Polynesians, who, from archæological evidence, are believed to have arrived before 100 AD.Ethnological and linguistic evidence suggests that they likely arrived from the region of Tonga and Samoa. The islands were given their More »

Tuvalu

Tuvaluans are a Polynesian people who settled the islands around 3000 years ago coming from Tonga and Samoa.[5] During pre-European-contact times there was frequent canoe voyaging between the nearer islands. Eight of the More »

Islands of Wallis and Futuna

Wallis and Futuna is located about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand, at 13°18′S 176°12′WCoordinates: 13°18′S 176°12′W, (225 mi west of Samoa and 300 mi (480 km) north-east of Fiji). The territory includes the island of More »

Tahiti

Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia. The island was formed from volcanic activity More »

Tokelau

The name Tokelau is a Polynesian word meaning “North Wind”. The islands were named the Union Islands and Union Group by European explorers at an unknown time. Tokelau Islands was adopted as the name in 1946, and was contracted to Tokelau on 9 December More »

Easter Island

Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is More »

New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa in Māori) is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and theSouth Island) and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some 1,500 kilometres (900 mi) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly More »

Tonga, The Friendly Islands

Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) of ocean in the South Pacific. Fifty-two of the More »

Cook Islands

The Cook Islands were first settled in the 6th century CE by Polynesian people who migrated from nearby Tahiti, to the southeast.  Spanish ships visited the islands in the 16th century; the first written record of contact with More »

Samoa

Samoa is located south of the equator, about halfway between Hawai‘i and New Zealand in the Polynesian region of the Pacific Ocean. The total land area is 2,934 km² (1,133 sq mi) (slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Rhode More »

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The Largest US Human Trafficking Case was in American Samoa

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The Largest US Human Trafficking Case was in American Samoa One of the biggest human trafficking cases in US Federal Government history was in American Samoa. Daewoosa, Ltd. was a garment factory located in American Samoa. The owner, operator, president

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Let me Introduce myself: SAO, Theresa Sao — @AmbitionzWriter

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Hello beautiful people!! How are you today???…Hoping all is well where ever you may be. Right now though I’d like to thank you, for sharing a couple of minutes with me. No really, I really appreciate your company!! =) If

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The Complete Guide to Cook Islands (Video)

The Complete Guide to Cook Islands (Video)

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List of Pronouns in Samoan

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List of Pronouns in Samoan  I speak:  Ou te tautala you speak: O ‘oe e tautala he speaks: O le tamae tautala she speaks: O le teine e tautala we speak: O tatou e tautatala they speak: O latou e

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Chief Toi & The Migration of Polynesians to New Zealand

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Chief Toi & The Migration of Polynesians to New Zealand According to Takitumu tradition, the first Polynesians to settle in New Zealand were the crew of a single vessel that, under the command of a chief named Toi, reached these

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Family Ties (Samoan Vocabulary) Faia

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Grandfather: Tama matua Grandmother: Tina matua Tama: Father Tina: Mother Afafine: Daughter Faiava: Male in-law Aunt: Uso o Lo’u Tina: Aunt Brother’s Sister: Tuafafine Sister’s Brother: Tuagane Atali’i: Son Boy: tama Girl: Teine Brothers: ‘au uso Uncle: Uso o Lo’u

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Samantha Marie Arasi Epenesa

Samantha Marie Arasi Epenesa

High School: Named as second team AVCA/Under Armour High School All-American for 2011-12 … ranked No. 33 among prepvolleyball.com’s Top 250 Senior Aces … a Fab 50 selection by Volleyball Magazine … garnered Large School Volleyball Player of the Year honors

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The Body (Samoan Vocabulary)- O Le Tino

Samoan Body

The Body (Samoan Language)- O Le Tino Tino:  Body Ulu (ao): Head Ua: Neck ‘auvae:  Chin Fatafata:  Chest Ogalima:  Arm Lima (‘a’ao):  Hand, arm Nofoaga (muli):  Bottom/Butt Tualima:  Back of the hand Ogavae:  Thigh Vae (‘a’ao): Legs, feet Atevae:  Calf

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Nature Words (Samoan Vocabulary)

Samoan Language Nature

Nature Words (Samoan Vocabulary) Po: Night Timu: Rain Matagi: Wind Masina:  Moon Fetu:  Stars Vanimonimo:  Sky Ao:  Day, Cloud Galu:  Wave Vasa:  Ocean Sami:  Sea La:  Sun Moana:  Ocean Gufe’e:  Squid I’a:  Fish Fe’e:  Octopus ‘amu:  Coral Nunua:  Dolphin Matu:

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Sia Figel

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Sia Figiel (born 1967 Matautu Tai, Samoa) is a contemporary Samoan novelist, poet, and painter. Sia Figiel grew up amidst the traditional Samoan singing and poetry which heavily influenced her writing.  Her formal schooling was conducted in Samoa and New

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