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Tsunami, Dogs and SPAM

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November 5th 2018
Dateline: November 5, 2018, Pago, Pago, American Samoa (Territory of the USA) Tsunami’s, Dogs and SPAM Today is Pago Pago, American Samoa. So… Pago Pago is pronounced, Pango, Pango with a short a. We arrive to pouring rain and 82 degrees, but with hopes, once again, of a sunny day. The harbor is absolutely beautiful but there is a tremendous wind coming off the mountains that keeps pushin ... read more

Oceania » Samoa » American 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