Robert Louis Stevenson Museum

Samoa

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July 25th 2018
We were happy to get up at 3am to leave cold Melbourne for our six night trip to Samoa flying via Auckland. We landed in Samoa around 8.30pm pleased to find it was a balmy 28 degrees. Picking our hire car up from the airport it was a challenge finding our way in the dark to our accommodation which was on the other side of the island. We used the first cross-island road; thank goodness our maps on ... read more

Oceania » Samoa

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New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It continued to administer the islands as a mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when the islands became the first Polynesian nation to... ... read more