South Pacific Cruising / Samoa ITMB ITMB | 9781771297189

South Pacific Cruise map and Road map of Samoa A map of the South Pacific Ocean, which extends southwards from Hawai’i to the southern tip of New Zealand and eastwards from central Australia/Papua New Guinea to the Pitcairn Islands. Even at 1:12M, most of the area covered is water, with island countries such as Fiji, Tonga, Kiribati, Tahiti, and the Cook Islands being visible, but without detail. The cruise routes current at the moment are shown with red dashed lines. The ocean area includes hill shading for the deep trenches of the Pacific Ocean. By doing so, the blue of the water areas is softened by the grey of deep trenches. The reverse side of the artwork covers the two entities known collectively as Samoa, which has been included for two reasons. First, it is in the centre of the South Pacific and several cruise companies stop at Pago Pago. Second, the two Samoas form a unit that is not contiguous with any other part of the vast Pacific region. Independent Western Samoa consists of two main islands and two small islands, which have been portrayed at 1:160,000 scale. An inset map of the capital, Apia is included. American Samoa is one of those areas the USA acquired during its expansion during the colonial era (Cuba, Hawai’i, Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands being other examples). The overseas territory, as the Americans prefer to call it, consists of half a dozen islands that are rather far apart from each other.. The main urban are is Fagatogo in Pago Pago harbour on the only island with an airport, Tutuila. The residents are American citizens, but cannot vote, as in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, as it is a ‘territory’ and not a state.