Apolima
Apolima | ||
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Apolima as seen from the ferry | ||
Waters | Apolima Strait, Pacific Ocean | |
Archipelago | Samoa Islands | |
Geographical location | 13 ° 49 ′ 27 ″ S , 172 ° 9 ′ 5 ″ W | |
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length | 1.6 km | |
width | 900 m | |
surface | 1.4 km² | |
Highest elevation | 165 m | |
Residents | 88 (2001) 63 inhabitants / km² |
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main place | Apolima-uta | |
Apolima far left (west), Manono in the center and Upolu right (east) i |
Apolima is an island that lies between the two main islands of Savaiʻi and Upolu in the island state of Samoa in Polynesia . The island is 8 km northwest of Upolu and 9 km southeast of Savaiʻi. Manono is the closest, 2 km away.
Apolima is surrounded by a reef , so larger ships cannot dock near the island, you can only reach the island from one of the neighboring islands by canoe.
The island, consisting mainly of tuff rock, used to be a volcano, part of the caldera of which slipped into the Pacific. At the edge of the rest of the caldera is the only place on the island, Apolima-Uta, where all 88 inhabitants of the island live.
Administratively, the island belongs to the Aiga-i-le-Tai district ( Samoa ).
Apolima Strait
The strait between the main islands of Savai'i and Upolu is named after the island of Apolima Strait ( German Apolima Strait ). Two other islands are also in this water: Manono and Nuʻulopa (uninhabited).
In 2006, Apolima was entered on the tentative list of Samoa with the two neighboring islands of Manono and Nu'ulopa as a candidate for UNESCO World Heritage .
Web links
- Satellite image and brief description ( memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- Classification for UNESCO World Heritage (English)
- Apolima in Meyer´s Lexicon from 1905 on zeno.org