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Western Samoa
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1 Tala, 1980
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Front: Two weavers
Back: Two fishermen in canoe
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Western Samoa, located in the Pacific Ocean 1600 miles northeast of New Zealand,
is formerly German Samoa. A Dutch navigator discovered the Samoan group of islands
in 1772. Great Britain, United States and Germany established consular
representation there in the mid 1800s. The three powers declared Samoa neutral
and established a tripartite protectorate over the islands in 1889. An 1899
agreement ceded the eastern group of the islands (American Samoa) to the United
States and the other islands (Western Samoa) to Germany. New Zealand occupied
Western Samoa at the start of WWI and administered the islands until independence
in 1962. Renamed Samoa in 1997. For a more detailed
country profile, see CIA World Factbook on Samoa.
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