Flaherty shot Moana in Safune on the island of Savai ' i where he lived with his wife and family for more than a year.

The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in Polynesia, Savai ' i. The capital city, Apia, and Faleolo International Airport are situated on the island of Upolu.

South east coast of Savai ' i island.

Transport in Samoa includes one international airport situated on the north west coast of Upolu island, paved highways reaching most parts of the two main, one main port in the capital Apia and two ports servicing mainly inter island ferries for vehicles and passengers between the two main islands, Upolu and Savai ' i.

* Asau-Small wharf situated on the north west coast of Savai ' i island which is seldom used commercially.

* Mulifanua-The main ferry terminal on Upolu island for passenger, cargo and vehicles to Savai ' i island.

* Salelologa-The only ferry terminal on Savai ' i island and the main entry point onto the island.

One example is the legend Sina and the Eel which is associated with the Mata o le Alelo pool on the island of Savai ' i.

* Papa village ( Samoa ), a village on the island of Savai ' i in Samoa

Nafanua, Samoa's warrior goddess hails from the village of Falealupo at the west end of Savai ' i island, which is also the site of the entry into Pulotu, the spirit world.

One became the island Savai ' i and the other stone became the island of Upolu.

There is a legend about a figure called Tui Fiti in the village of Fagamalo on the island of Savai ' i.

He builds a huge out-rigger canoe on the island of Ta ' u and sails to Savai ' i, where a mountain is named after him.

Upolu is situated to the east of the " big island ", Savai ' i. The capital Apia is in the middle of the north coast with Faleolo International Airport at the western end of the island.

* 1830-Church of Scotland missionary Alexander Duff arrives in Kolkata ( formerly Calcutta ); William Swan, missionary to Siberia, writes Letters on Missions, the first Protestant comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice of missions ; Baptism of Taufa ' ahau Tupou, King of Tonga, by a western missionary ; arrival of John Williams of the London Missionary Society in Samoa, landing in Sapapali ' i on Savai ' i island

Moana was filmed in Samoa in the villages of Safune on the island of Savai ' i. The name of the lead male character, moana means ' ocean ' in the Samoan language.

The legendary homeland of the Māori of New Zealand, where w is used instead of v, is Hawaiki ; in the Cook Islands, where h is replaced with the glottal stop, it is ‘ Avaiki ; in the Hawaiian Islands, where w is used and k is replaced with the glottal stop, the largest island of the group is named Hawai ‘ i ; in Samoa, where s has not been substituted by h, v is used instead of w, and k is replaced with the glottal stop, the largest island is called Savai ' i. In the Society Islands, k and ng are replaced by the glottal stop, so the name for the ancestral homeland is pronounced Havai ‘ i.

Silisili, on the island of Savai ' i, one of the highest peaks in Polynesia at 1858 m. The highest point in American Samoa is on Ta ’ u, Lata Mountain, at.

The island of Upolu is more populated than Savai ' i.

Adam of Bremen retells the story and adds that the island was Heiligland, i. e., Heligoland.

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Mac an Tàilleir ( 2003 ) lists the more recent Gaelic names of Ì, Ì Chaluim Chille and Eilean Idhe noting that the first named is " generally lengthened to avoid confusion " to the second, which means " Calum's ( i. e. in latinised form " Columba's ") Iona " or " island of Calum's monastery ".

The text of the Constitution of Ireland, as originally enacted in 1937, made reference in its controversial Articles 2 and 3 to two geopolitical entities: a thirty-two county ' national territory ' ( i. e., the island of Ireland ), and a twenty-six county ' state ' formerly known as the Irish Free State.

With the reorganization of 1965 all attack forces, i. e., the fast torpedo boats, were combined into a single flotilla ( the 6th Flotilla ) and stationed on the Bug peninsula of the island of Rügen.

The name Lille comes from insula or l ' Isla, i. e., " the island ", since the area was at one time marshy.

The coastline is deeply indented ; two prominent features are the natural harbor at Antsiranana ( Diégo Suarez ), just south of the Cap d ' Ambre ( Tanjon ' i Bobaomby ), and the large island of Nosy-Be to the West limits the potential of a port at Antsiranana by impeding the flow of traffic from other parts of the island.

As part of a nationwide Sino-French cartographic program, the Jesuits Jean-Baptiste Régis, Pierre Jartoux, and Xavier Ehrenbert Fridelli joined a Chinese team visiting the lower Amur ( known to them under its Manchu name, Saghalien Ula, i. e. the " Black River "), in 1709, and learned from the " Ke tcheng " natives of the lower Amur about the existence of the offshore island nearby.

They reported that the mainlanders used a variety of names to refer to the island, but Saghalien anga bata, i. e. " the Island the mouth of the Black River " was the most common one, meanwhile the name " Huye " ( presumably, " Kuye ", 庫頁 ) they had heard in Beijing was completely unknown to the locals.

Interstate H-2 ( abbreviated H-2 ) is an intrastate Interstate Highway located on the island of O ‘ ahu in Hawai ‘ i, USA.

Interstate H-3 ( abbreviated H-3 ) is an intrastate Interstate Highway located on the island of O ' ahu in the state of Hawai ' i in the United States.

It is indeed true, as stated in the famous novel of our day, `` For Whom The Bell Tolls '', that `` no man is an island, entirely of itself ; ;

Active warfare is raging between the forces pressing for a monument to the first Roosevelt on Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Potomac, and TR.'s own living children, who wish to preserve the island as a wildlife sanctuary.

The episode in which Sancho Panza concludes the joke that is played on him when he is facetiously put in command of an `` island '' is one of the best in the film.

The land on the Arctic Circle is divided among eight countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States ( Alaska ), Canada, Denmark ( Greenland ), and Iceland ( where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey ).

** Eunectes murinus, the green anaconda, the largest species, is found east of the Andes in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and on the island of Trinidad.

An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain or cluster of islands.

It is now used to refer to any island group or, sometimes, to a sea containing a large number of scattered islands such as the Aegean Sea.

* 1993 – The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.

Achill Island () in County Mayo is the largest island off the coast of Ireland, and is situated off the west coast.

The island is 87 % peat bog.

Keem BayAchill Archaeological Field School is based at the Achill Archaeology Centre in Dooagh, which has served as a catalyst for a wide array of archaeological investigations on the island.

The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.

Aphrodite is usually said to have been born near Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, for which reason she is called " Cyprian ", especially in the poetic works of Sappho.

However, other versions of her myth have her born near the island of Kythira ( Cythera ), for which reason she is called " Cytherea ".

The Territory of the Ashmore and Cartier Islands is an external territory of Australia consisting of two groups of small low-lying uninhabited tropical islands in the Indian Ocean situated on the edge of the continental shelf north-west of Australia and south of the Indonesian island of Rote.

Earlier Pliny says that a large island of three days ' sail from the Scythian coast called Balcia by Xenophon of Lampsacus is called Basilia by Pytheas.

* 1483 – Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.

In the 1516 novel Utopia by Thomas More, the island called Utopia once had the name " Abraxa ", which scholars have suggested is a related use.

During the Tokugawa period ( 1600 – 1868 ) the Ainu became increasingly involved in trade with Japanese who controlled the southern portion of the island that is now called Hokkaido.