| LC control no. | sh 85117033 |
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| Geographic heading | Samoan Islands |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Samoan Islands |
| Variant(s) | Navigators Islands Samoa Islands Samoan Archipelago |
| See also | Archipelagoes--South Pacific Ocean Islands of the Pacific Polynesia |
| Found in | Skelton, P. The benthic marine algae of the Samoan Archipelago, South Pacific, with emphasis on the Apia District, 2007: p. 1 (The Samoan Archipelago lies between latitudes 13-15⁰ South and longitudes 168-173⁰ West. A total land area of 3,131 sq. km is scattered over two politically distinct (independent Samoa and American Samoa) island groups; Samoa is arranged in a 500 km linear chain extending east-west along a line of seamounts and islands; Samoa Island chain) Columbia gaz. of the world, c1998 (Samoa, chain of volcanic islands in the South Pacific, near Fiji and Tonga; politically divided into the Independent State of Western Samoa and the unorganized unincorporated territory of American Samoa; Samoan chain) Wikipedia, Oct. 16, 2007 (Samoan Islands or Samoa Islands (formerly referred to as Navigators' Islands) is an archipelago covering 3,030 sq km in the central South Pacific, forming part of the Polynesia region; Samoan Islands archipelago) LC database, Oct. 16, 2007 (Samoa; Samoan archipelago; Sāmoan Archipelago; Samoa Islands; Sāmoa Islands; Samoan Islands) |
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