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    Swains Island (/ˈsweɪnz/; Tokelauan: Olohega [oloˈhɛŋa]; Samoan: Olosega [oloˈsɛŋa]) is a remote coral atoll in the Tokelau volcanic island group in the...
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    Atoll Swains Island (Olosenga, Olohega) (Disputed) Tau Tutuila List of islands of Australia, including: Coral Sea Islands Willis Island Lord Howe Island Norfolk...
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    Samoa and most of American Samoa (apart from Swains Island, which is geographically part of the Tokelau Islands). The land masses of the two Samoan jurisdictions...
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    from Swains Island. Suʻa Alexander Eli Jennings is a direct descendant of Eli Hutchinson Jennings, the first American settler of Swains Island. Jennings...
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    American Samoa (category Island countries)
    and the uninhabited Rose Atoll—as well as Swains Island, a remote coral atoll in the Tokelau volcanic island group. The total land area is 77 square miles...
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    addition to one non-voting delegate from Swains Island, for a total of 21 members. In 2022, the Swains Island Delegate became a voting member of the American...
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    of its territory (about 2%) does not belong to the principal owner. Swains Island in the Tokelau archipelago has been owned by the family of Eli Hutchinson...
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    terms, with 20 popularly elected representatives, and one delegate from Swains Island elected in a public meeting. American Samoa became a United States territory...
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  • Labrador), Canada Swains Island, an atoll in the Tokelau chain, American Samoa Swain County, North Carolina, United States Swains Lake, New Hampshire...
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  • that the only entity on this list with a permanent human population is Swains Island, American Samoa. The first 8 counties (county-equivalents) are uninhabited...
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    This time is used in Niue, American Samoa, Swains Island, and parts of the United States Minor Outlying Islands. This is the latest inhabited time zone,...
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    Tokelau (redirect from Tokelau Islands)
    combined land area of 10 km2 (4 sq mi). In addition to these three, Swains Island (Olohega), which forms part of the same archipelago, is the subject...
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    Sua, Saʻole Manuʻa District Ofu, Olosega, Taʻū, Faleasao, Fitiuta Swains Island Rose Atoll Elections 1970, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016...
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    and Olohega ([oloˈhɛŋa], the Tokelauan name of Swains Island), which the boundary separates. Swains Island was initially settled by Polynesian voyagers...
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    Islands Rotuma Samoan Islands American Samoa (excluding Swains Island) Samoa Tokelau Islands Swains Island Tokelau Tonga Tuvalu Wallis and Futuna Alo Sigave...
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    independent Samoa and Niue. One island in American Samoa (Swains Island) is not in the Samoan Islands — it is in the Tokelau island chain. U.S. State Department...
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    Atoll Navassa Island (claimed by Haiti) Bajo Nuevo Bank (disputed with Colombia) Serranilla Bank (disputed with Colombia) Swains Island (part of American...
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  • Territorial claims in Antarctica Swains Island Swains Island  This article incorporates public domain material from "Swain Islands". Geographic Names Information...
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    Secrets of Swains Island Archived July 19, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, September 2013. Swains Island, Charles...
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    districts (Western, Eastern and Manuʻa) and two unorganized atolls (Swains Island and Rose Atoll). The districts are subdivided into 15 counties, which...
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  • Mariana Islands (Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands) Samoan Islands (American Samoa, except Swains Island) Virgin Islands (the Spanish Virgin Islands and...
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    Cyclone Percy (category 2005 in the Cook Islands)
    even further to a Category 3 storm, as it passed between Fakaofa and Swains Island. Percy then reached its initial peak at Category 4 status north of Pago...
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    status of several islands is disputed. Navassa Island is disputed by Haiti, Wake Island is disputed by the Marshall Islands, Swains Island (a part of American...
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  • language spoken in Tokelau and historically by the small population of Swains Island (or Olohega) in American Samoa. It is closely related to Tuvaluan and...
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  • The numbering plan area comprises the seven islands of Tutuila, Aunuʻu, Ofu, Olosega, Taʻū, Swains Island, and Rose Atoll. Previous to joining the North...
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    Union Islands (Tokelau) and invited the United States to annex Swains Island. On 4 March 1925, the United States officially annexed Swains Island as part...
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    7 km (1.62 × 1.68 mi.). It is also the only atoll of the Samoan Islands. (Swains Island is also an atoll, but only politically part of American Samoa,...
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    and became a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone, as it passed near Swains Island during January 3. Intensification proceeded at a fairly rapid rate....
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  • Swain's Island, Newfoundland, is actually a group of eight islands on the north side of Bonavista Bay, southeast of Wesleyville. All of these islands...
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  • Representatives. Jennings was born in Swains Island in 1928, the daughter of Margaret (née Pedro) and Eli Jennings, the owner of the island. She began working in the...
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