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Pago Pago (/ ˈpɑːŋɡɔːˈpɑːŋɡɔː / PAHNG-gaw-PAHNG-gaw; Samoan: Samoan pronunciation: [ˈpaŋo ˈpaŋo]) [3] is the capital of American Samoa. It is in Maoputasi County on Tutuila, which is American Samoa's main island. Pago Pago is home to one of the deepest natural deepwater harbors in the South Pacific Ocean, sheltered from wind ...
The capital, Pago Pago is located on the inner reaches of the harbor, close to its northwesternmost point. It has the highest annual rainfall of any harbor in the world. [ 3] It is also considered one of the best and deepest deepwater harbors in the South Pacific Ocean or in Oceania as a whole. [ 4][ 5] Pago Pago Bay is over 400 feet (120 m ...
Added to NRHP. July 2, 2003. The Sadie Thompson Inn is a historic building in Malaloa, one of the constituent villages of Pago Pago in American Samoa. The building is noted as the guest house where from mid-December 1916 author W. Somerset Maugham resided for six weeks during an extended trip through the South Sea Islands.
American Samoa [c] is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the South Pacific Ocean.Centered on , it is 40 miles (64 km) southeast of the island country of Samoa, east of the International Date Line and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, west of the Cook Islands, north of Tonga, and some 310 miles (500 km) south of Tokelau
UTC−11 (Samoa Time Zone) ZIP code. 96799. Area code. +1 684. Fagatogo is the downtown area of Pago Pago (the territorial capital of American Samoa). [2] Located in the low grounds at the foot of Matafao Peak, it was the location of the first American settlement on Tutuila Island. It includes the sub-village of Malaloa. [3]
Pago Pago International Airport (IATA: PPG, ICAO: NSTU, FAA LID: PPG), also known as Tafuna Airport, is a public airport located 7 miles (11.3 km) southwest of the central business district of Pago Pago, in the village and plains of Tafuna on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States.
Rainmaker Mountain (also known as Mount Pioa [1] [2]) is the name of a mountain located near Pago Pago, American Samoa on Tutuila Island. Rainmaker Mountain traps rain clouds and gives Pago Pago the highest annual rainfall of any harbor. [3] [4] [5] The average annual rainfall on the mountain is around 200 inches (510 cm). [6]
Pago Pago Harbor. Pago is a shield volcano in the center of Tutuila Island, the largest island of American Samoa in the South Pacific Ocean . The volcano was formed by subaerial eruptions between 1.54 and 1.28 million years ago. [1] It has been estimated that the volcano was as high as 3,937 feet (1,200 m) above sea level. [2]