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    Safune is a traditional village district on the central north coast of Savai'i island in Samoa. It lies within the electoral constituency of Gaga'ifomauga...
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  • the village of Matavai on the northern coast in the village district of Safune. Fetu ("star") is the god of the night. His wife is Ele'ele. Samoan mythology...
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    Poutasi Puapua Puipa'a Pesega Saaga Saasaai Saipipi Safotu Safotulafai Safune Sagone Salailua Salamumu Salani Saleamua Saleaula Saleilua Saleimoa Salelologa...
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    Lefagaoali'i, Manase, Safune, Safotu, Samauga and Sasina. The main village in the district was traditionally Aopo. Manase, Safotu, Sasina and Safune are situated...
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    was filmed in Safune on the central north coast. The film was directed by Robert J. Flaherty who lived with his wife and children in Safune for more than...
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    the fresh spring pool Mata o le Alelo in the small village of Matavai, Safune, is associated with the legend of Sina and the Eel. The pool is named after...
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  • Cabinet. She is a member of the Human Rights Protection Party. Neri is from Safune on the island of Savaiʻi. She worked as an Education lecturer at the National...
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    Samoa (then under the Western Samoa Trust Territory) in the villages of Safune district on the island of Savai'i. The name of the lead male character,...
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    in Moana (1926), directed by American Robert J. Flaherty and filmed in Safune on the island of Savai'i. The film shows the young hero Moana's friend receiving...
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    Samoa. They set foot on the island of Savaii at Puaseisei's village of Safune, before arriving at Sapapalii on the 24th of August, 1830, to meet with...
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  • Savai'i island in Samoa. The village is in the traditional sub-district of Safune in the Gagaifomauga electoral division. It has a population of 378. "Electoral...
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    arrived in Rarotonga in May 1836, then Samoa in April 1837 and settled at Safune on the central north coast of Savai'i island in Samoa in August 1837. He...
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    View in Safune village....
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    around the coast, the next village is Safotu followed by Samauga and the Safune settlements. Manase is 45 km from the ferry terminal and township of Salelologa...
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    Heading west past the village is Samauga followed by Lefagaoali'i and Safune. Safotu is situated on a coastal strip at the west end of a volcanic escarpment...
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    order of Nanook, he went to Samoa to film Moana (1926). He shot the film in Safune on the island of Savai'i where he lived with his wife and family for more...
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    o le Alelo is in the small village of Matavai, in the village district Safune on the central north coast of Savai'i island in Samoa. The pool is fed by...
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  • preceded by a series of thirteen earthquakes, which damaged stone churches at Safune and Sasina and destroyed the church at Paia. The inhabitants of these villages...
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  • Party. Va'ele was born in Matavai on the island of Savaiʻi and educated at Safune Primary School, Maluafou College, Le Amosa University and Malua Theological...
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    Mau leaders in the 1920s was Olaf Frederick Nelson, a merchant born in Safune to a Samoan mother and Swedish father. Nelson was also exiled from Samoa...
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    the Eel. Church architecture in Samoa Church interior, Matavai village in Safune, Savai'i Island Methodist chapel at Piula Theological College Catholic church...
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  • Ati Manutai. Auala is also known as Safune Taufa'asala the four families of Tagaloa Safune. (Fale Fa Gafua o Safune). Auala has one malae (open area serving...
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    the anti-colonial Mau movement. Nelson was born on 24 February 1883 in Safune on the island of Savai'i to Swedish trader August Nelson and his Samoan...
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  • of Safotu and on the west side, the road heads towards Lefagaoali'i and Safune. There is a turnoff in the village to the inland village of Paia. From 2006...
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    Saleaula and Sato'alepai. Towards the west are the villages of Safotu and Safune. In Samoan mythology, Fagamalo is the home of Tui Fiti, a spirit deity who...
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    Fa'asaleleaga 9 - 13 Coeducational Public school Alofi o Taoa Secondary School near Safune Itu-o-Tane No. 2 school district Gaga'ifomauga 9 - 13 Coeducational Public...
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  • Polataivao was born in Samoa and has heritage from Vailoa, Vaiusu, Fagae'e and Safune. She grew up in South Auckland. Polataivao began acting as a child with...
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  • Papali'i Tino Lale hails from the Samoan villages of Apolima Uta, Vaiusu and Safune, Savaii. His mother Nicola Tupu Lale hails from the villages of Sinamoga...
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    the villages of Samauga and Safotu. On the south and towards the west are Safune, Faletagaloa and Sasina. There are reef breaks for surfing directly in front...
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    remains of dense inland settlements prior to European contact in Safotu, Safune and Fagamalo (Matautu village district, Savai'i Island), on the north coast...
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