Found inside – Page 22SAMOA ( OR NAVIGATOR ) GROUP . 1. - General Description . The islands of Samoa , which are fourteen in number , lie about 500 miles to the northward of the Tonga Group — the sailing distance from Auckland being 1570 miles . Samoa is ... Found insideOnce a month a steamer leaves Auckland for the Tongan and Samoan groups , the trip occupying about 21 days , and the distance run being 3300 miles . During the winter excursion season the steamer proceeds from Samoa , to Fiji and ... Found inside – Page 75Some long - distance voyages within Polynesia 1. ... Tonga — Samoa ( about 130—360 miles ) , Tonga -Rotuma ( about 300 miles ) -Ellice Islands ( about 200 ... Found inside – Page 43OCEAN ROUTES 43 in longitude 162° 15 ' W . This route passes through the Samoan but otherwise is clear . Distance to Auckland , 6 , 056 miles . Islands and the Tonga Islands , dangers of which should be avoided , ( 2 ) Some mariners ... Found insideThe distance between these islands is about 2500 miles and about 5 hours by ... Tonga and Samoa in wars = yes this is the TRUTH due to living 100 miles ... Found inside – Page 238Long - distance exchange Tonga stands unique among the indigenous ... analysis of the exchange patterns between Tonga , Samoa , and Fiji , noting that these ... Found inside – Page 64... the Tonga Islands. It is 490 miles southeast of Fiji and the same distance from American Samoa to the northeast. New Caledonia is 1,080 miles due west. Found inside – Page 287Long-distance interaction and chiefly influence Visitors to Tonga in the late ... During Cook's 1777 ce visit, Samoa was claimed to be under Tongan rule, ... Found inside – Page 27... he decided to run west to the Tonga Group , a distance of about 1,000 miles . ... To the north - east their trips extended to the Samoa Group . Found inside – Page 6Between New Zealand and the Tonga Islands, Also Between Fiji and the Tonga Islands Cecil Frederick Oldham. This was done by running a meridian distance between Nukualofa , Tongatábu , and Apia , Samoa , using harbour rates at each ... Found inside – Page 723The Samoan islands have a total land area of 1,170 square miles. ... dating between 1020 and 860 B.C. Within the triangle of Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji, ... Found inside – Page 118That long - distance trade or exchange indeed has a long antiquity in Island Melanesia is shown by evidence for the ... from the Bismarck Archipelago through the Solomons and Vanuatu , as far east as Fiji , Tonga , and Samoa ( Kirch and ... Found inside – Page 6The eastward decreasing age of the Samoan islands suggests a “hot spot” origin. This however is in contradiction with a presumed stable distance between Samoa and the Tonga ridge (Ewart, 1988). No representatives of the bloetei group ... Found inside... two restaurants, Samoa's only casino ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %7599909; ... though there is one within strolling distance) and there's a good pool. Found inside – Page 85For comparison , from Samoa the Society Islands lie between 1000 and 1200 sea miles away , within a 6.5 ° arc , and from Tonga they present a similar ... Found inside – Page 63The distance between them is 120 miles , and the water is deep . ... Distance : Sydney to Samoa , 2 , 377 miles . Sydney to Tongatabu ( Tonga Islands ) . Found inside – Page 83It stretched some 2,500 miles from northeast of New Guinea to Samoa and Tonga and was marked by distinctive pottery and a vast trading network. Found inside – Page 1271968 ; Gill 1970 , 1976b , 1984 , 1987 ; Tonga and Kermadec Trench Gill and Whelan 1989a , b ; Rogers and Setterfield 1994 ) . Vanuatu Islands Samoan The ... Found inside – Page 181... 1 , 391 , 995 ; Western Samoa , 520 , 162 ; Gilbert and Ellice Islands , 344 , 585 ; Tonga , 311 , 959 ; Japan , 679 , 114 . ... There is a principal highway round Viti Levu , the distance from Suva to Lautoka via Ra , Tavua and Ba ( King ' s Road ) ... Found inside – Page 238Regarding Tonga and Samoa as the centres from which the Polynesian race has ... but that in less than half the distance is an island answering in name ... Found inside – Page 397Lapita settlers finally arrived as settlers in Tonga, Fiji, and Samoa ... would prove to be among the world's most adventurous long-distance voyagers. Found inside – Page 83PEACESAT institutions , USP terminal sites , and other networks Station Call sign Institution Town / city Country / state Honolulu Wellington Suva Tonga Lae Saipan Noumea Rarotonga Niue Honiara Tarawa Vila Apia Santa Cruz Pago Pago ... Found inside – Page 94There was also long-distance trade and exchange with Fiji and Samoa. Claessen finds that the greater part of the state's income consisted of food, ... Found inside – Page 39Table 6 indicates that Tonga and Samoa , for instance , are very much dependent on remittances . Table 6 : Remittances to Western Samoa and Tonga ( national ... Found inside – Page 9510 in ventral view ; Samoa , Tutuila , Fagatogo ; 183 , caudo - dorsal beak ... slightly protruding , 1.5-1.9 x as wide as distance between postclypeus and ... Found inside... with their parents and ten tangatatapamanu, and bringing ten chickens, went to Orongo from his home on the north coast, a distance of some eleven miles. Found inside – Page 14... able to offer online courses to Fiji, Vanuatu, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Tonga, and Kiribati. Found inside – Page 179Samoa lies in kinder latitudes, accessible from either Fiji or Tonga. Beyond the Fiji—Samoa-Tonga axis, distances to the major island groups of the South ... Found inside – Page 5... and two different measures of distance (Figures 2-4). Samoa Marshall Kiribati Islands Tuvalu Tonga Micronesia Fiji Solomon Islands Palau Mauritius ... Found inside – Page 198Tonga once ruled Samoa , oral traditions say , and Tongan kings took wives from Samoan chiefly families . Tongans had greater mastery over long - distance ... Found inside – Page 215... Santa Cruz 1924 Valparaiso 1985 Marquesas, Nuku Hiva 2055 Tongatapu 3577 Ile Rapa 1857 FIJI, SUVA to Tonga,Tongatapu 418 Samoa, Apia 640 New Caledonia, ... Found inside – Page 398With Samoa these contacts were perhaps only irregular or occasional, ... the relatively short distance between the Lau islands of Fiji and Tonga, ... Found inside – Page 278... distinct vernaculars ranging from one (Tonga) to around 105 (Vanuatu). ... Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Vanuatu and Samoa, had capacity in ... Found inside – Page 199TONGA OR FRIENDLY , AND SAMOA OR NAVIGATOR ISLANDS , ETC. Caution . ... for the distance of about 250 miles , should be regarded with suspicion . Found inside – Page 86Habitat and An endemic in the region , the Crimson - crowned Fruit - dove is widespread in Tonga Range and Samoa ... male delivers a sharp yapping sound , frequently repeated at intervals and similar to a dog's bark heard at a distance . Found inside – Page 28761 ) shows that it may also be interpreted as a discontinuous function of the distance in a similar manner as shown in ... centers TABLE VIII PATHS LARGELY OCEANIC PATHS LARGELY CONTINENTAL Samoa Tonga SURFACE WAVES ... Found inside – Page 215... Honiara, Guadal Canal 1019 Fiji, Suva 1220 Tuvalu, Funafuti 703 Samoa, Apia 1289 ... Suva Tonga, Nukualofa Samoa, Apia 756 215 REEDS MARINE DISTANCE TABLES. Found inside – Page 43OCEAN ROUTES 43 in longitude 162 ° 15 ' W. This route passes through the Samoan but otherwise is clear . Distance to Auckland , 6,056 miles . Found insideGENERAL L Niue is situated about 600 kilometres north - east of Tonga and a similar distance south - southeast of Western Samoa , It is east of the international date - line and observes the same time as Western Samoa , being exactly one ... Found inside – Page 546Au Australia , Papua New Guinea , Samoa , Tonga , Vanuatu . ... other educational institutions throughout the Commonwealth , making use of potential offered by distance education and the applications of communications technology , seek to ... Found inside – Page 83It stretched some 2,500 miles from northeast of New Guinea to Samoa and Tonga and was marked by distinctive pottery and a vast trading network. Found insideWorld review of distance education and open learning Volume 5 Louise Moran ... the COL/VET/Pacific project arose because the governments of Samoa, Tonga and ... Found inside – Page 103... some reluctance and a note of sadness that Te Rangihiroa concluded by saying , “ it now seems that these Polynesian groups may be a backward movement which started from Samoa and Tonga and lost impetus after a certain distance . Found inside – Page 134Both Samoa plant near the Vailima Brewery at Vaitele , of the chemists ... Long - distance buses have been known to drive around town for an hour looking ... Found inside – Page 84... by a passion to made long - distance voyaging poss- explore and colonize ... the ancestors of modern Polynesians Tonga and Samoa during the cen- arrived ... Found insideHere, open-water distances are much longer, involving, for example, ... In Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga, the first settlers carried Lapita artifacts with them, ... Found inside – Page 571Among the distances closest to the Tonga– Samoa series in western Polynesia are those from Island and Mainland Southeast Asia. Further inspection indicates ... Found inside – Page 14WESTERN SAMOA Turns to Exports Despite its distance from markets , Western Samoa is striving to diversify its exports ... Western Samoa is 80 miles away from American Samoa , 750 miles from Tonga , 790 miles from Fiji , 1 , 800 miles from ... Found inside – Page 517Survey of Distance Education in South Pacific COUNTRY PROFILE The South Pacific ... and Vanuatu ) , Polynesian ( living Western Samoa , Tonga , Cook Islands ... Found inside – Page 70The Tongan Art of Sociospatial Relations Tevita O. Ka'ili ... Futuna, 'Uvea, Samoa, and Fiji and some long-distance voyaging between Tonga and other places. ... found inside – Page 199TONGA OR FRIENDLY, and Samoa OR Islands! In kinder latitudes, accessible from either Fiji OR Tonga in contradiction with a presumed stable Between. Page 179Samoa lies in kinder latitudes, accessible from either Fiji OR Tonga Also Between Fiji and Tonga... Southeast of Fiji and the same distance from American Samoa to the Samoa... 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