loading...| Preferred Name | Samoan | |
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"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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http://www.bioontology.org/pma.owl#PMA_444 |
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1298 |
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"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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MSH2006_2005_11_15 |
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Samoan |
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PMA_444 |
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Samoan |
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