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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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- Navigator Island
- Navigator Islands
- Samoa Islands
- Samoan Islands
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Indexed with the subheadings epidemiology, ethnology.
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an island group in Polynesia; AMERICAN SAMOA & INDEPENDENT STATE OF SAMOA are also available
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96; was see WESTERN SAMOA 1994-95
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- Pacific Islands (1967-1970)
- Western Samoa (1968-1995)
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- National Library of Medicine. Samoa. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018947. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018947
- Samoa. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoan_Islands
- Samoa. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q162126