Savai’i, the “soul of Samoa”, is the larger of the two main islands in the state of Samoa. It is home to approximately 50,000 people. Savaii is less developed than the other main Samoan island of Upolu. The ports of Salelologa and Asau are situated on Savai’i. Download high resolution version (3342x1716, 476 KB)Map by --CloudSurfer 11:58, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC) File links The following pages link to this file: Samoa Geography of Samoa Upolu Savaii Categories: GFDL images ... Download high resolution version (3342x1716, 476 KB)Map by --CloudSurfer 11:58, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC) File links The following pages link to this file: Samoa Geography of Samoa Upolu Savaii Categories: GFDL images ... Samoa In Polynesian mythology (specifically Samoan), Upolu is the first woman on the island of the same name. ... Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 A port is a facility at the edge of an ocean, river, or lake for receiving ships and transferring cargo and persons to them. ... Categories: Stub | Samoa ...
Savai’i is home of the Pulemelei Mound, Taga Blowholes, and Moso's Footprint, which dates back to prehistoric times. Falealupo is just 20 miles from the dateline and is therefore the most westernmost point of Samoa. The Pulemelei mound on the island of Savaii, is the largest and most ancient structure in Polynesia. ... Categories: Oceania geography stubs | Samoa ... According to myth, Mosos Footprint was made when the giant Moso stepped over to Samoa from Fiji, and the other footprint can be found on Viti Levu of Fiji. ... Looking west at the western tip of Savaii Falealupo is a village situated on the northwestern peninsula of Savaii, 20 miles from the dateline. ...
The country is located east of the international dateline and south of the equator, about halfway between Hawai'i and New Zealand in the Polynesian region of the Pacific Ocean.
The Samoas are of volcanic origin, and the total land area is 2934 km², consisting of the two large islands of Upolu and Savai'i which account for 96% of the total land area, and eight small islets: Manono, Apolima, Nu'utele, Nu'ulua, Namua, Fanuatapu, Nu'usafe'e, and Nu'ulopa.
While all of the islands have volcanic origins, only Savai'i has had recent eruptions and could be considered volcanically active: the last major eruption occurred in the 1700s, and smaller eruptions occurred in the first decade of the twentieth century.
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