Saluafata
Saluafata is a village and bay in the north of the Samoan island of Upolu .
history
In the German Colonial Lexicon of 1920 it says about Saluafata: Saluafáta, large village in Atua, north coast of Upolu, Samoa, 6 hours east of Apia , whose reef harbor is surpassed by Saluafáta. Important in the German history of Samoa. Beautifully framed by mountains; close to Lufilufi.
In Meyer's Large Konversations-Lexikon from 1909 it says about Saluafata: Saluafata, 2 square kilometers large, fairly sheltered bay on the north coast of the Samoan island Upolu, should be connected with Apia by a road and serve as a coal station.
The German warship SMS Ariadne occupied the port and place Saluafata (as well as Falealili on the south coast of the island of Upolu ) on July 16, 1878 for the German Empire . In January 1879 the occupation was ended again by the conclusion of a "friendship treaty" with the local rulers. This began the German involvement in colonial conflicts with the USA, which in the case of Samoa in 1899 led to the division of the island group between the two colonial powers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.ub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de/Bildprojekt/Lexikon/php/suche_db.php?suchname=Saluafata
- ↑ http://www.zeno.org/nid/20007390378
- ↑ Hermann Joseph Hiery: The German South Seas 1884-1914 . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2001, p. 2
- ↑ Joachim Schultz-Naumann, Under the Emperor's Flag: Germany's Protected Areas in the Pacific and China, then and now, Universitas, Munich, 1985, p. 161.