Savai'i

Ko Savai'i te motu nui rawa atu i te whenua o Hāmoa.^[1] Mo nga Hāmoa, ko tētahi ingoa mo tenei motu, ko Salafai.

He 43,103 (2006) nga tangata e noho i roto o te motu katoa.^[2] E tu Savai'i whakatehauāuru, pe tekau nga maero, ki te motu o Upolu.^[3] E noho nga tangata katoa i o ratou papakainga. I roto o Hāmoa, ko te whaka Hāmoa (fa'a Samoa) te wairua me nga mea mauri o nga tangata whenua. He tapu nga kaumatua. Ko matai te kupu i te reo Hāmoa mo nga ariki o nga kainga.

Ko Salelologa te taone nui, e tu i te takutai rāwhiti. Te papakainga o Falealupo te Rārangi Huringa Wā o te Ao, ā, koia te kāinga hauāuru rawa atu i Hāmoa.

I taua wā, i nga tau i te timatanga o 1900, nā timata te motuhaketanga Mau a Pule ki Savai'i i te papakainga o Safotulafai. Ko Lauati Namulau'ulu Mamoe tētahi o ngā toa rangatira o te Mau a Pule. Ko te wā o tana matenga ko te tau 1915 ki te motu o Tarawa.

1. ↑ "Samoa Territorial Constituencies Act 1963". Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute. Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 6 January, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
2. ↑ "Population and Housing Census Report 2006" (PDF). Samoa Bureau of Statistics. July 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 6 January, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
3. ↑ Hart, S.R., Koppers, A. A.; Russell, J. A.; Staudigel, H. (2006). "New 40Ar/39Ar Ages for Savai'i Island Reinstate Samoa as a Hotspot Trail with a Linear Age Progression". The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #V34B-02. Retrieved 6 Hanuere, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)