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Descriptor English: Samoa
Descriptor Spanish: Samoa
Descriptor Samoa
Entry term(s) Islas Navigator
Islas de Samoa
Scope note: Grupo de islas en la parte central suroccidental del Pacífico, dividida en SAMOA AMERICANA y el ESTADO INDEPENDIENTE DE SAMOA (Samoa Occidental). El primer contacto europeo fue realizado en 1722 por Jacob Roggeveen, holandés. En 1768 Louis de Bougainville las dio el nombre de Islas Navigators. El nombre actual puede derivar del de un jefe local o de una palabra local que significa lugar de la moa, ave isleña en la actualidad desaparecida. (Traducción libre del original: Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1061 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p481)
Descriptor Portuguese: Samoa
Descriptor French: Samoa
Entry term(s): Navigator Island
Navigator Islands
Samoa Islands
Samoan Islands
Tree number(s): Z01.639.760.815.800
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018947
Scope note: A group of islands in the southwest central Pacific, divided into AMERICAN SAMOA and the INDEPENDENT STATE OF SAMOA (Western Samoa). First European contact was made in 1722 by Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman. In 1768 they were named Navigators Islands by Louis de Bougainville. The present name may derive from that of a local chieftain or from a local word meaning place of the moa, a now-extinct island bird. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1061 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p481)
Annotation: an island group in Polynesia; AMERICAN SAMOA & INDEPENDENT STATE OF SAMOA are also available
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
Previous Indexing: Pacific Islands (1967-1970)
Western Samoa (1968-1995)
Online Note: use WESTERN SAMOA to search SAMOA 1994-95
History Note: 96; was see WESTERN SAMOA 1994-95
DeCS ID: 32614
Unique ID: D018947
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1996/01/01
Date of Entry: 1995/06/08
Revision Date: 2012/07/03
Samoa - Preferred
Concept UI M0028317
Scope note A group of islands in the southwest central Pacific, divided into AMERICAN SAMOA and the INDEPENDENT STATE OF SAMOA (Western Samoa). First European contact was made in 1722 by Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman. In 1768 they were named Navigators Islands by Louis de Bougainville. The present name may derive from that of a local chieftain or from a local word meaning place of the moa, a now-extinct island bird. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1061 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p481)
Preferred term Samoa
Entry term(s) Navigator Island
Navigator Islands
Samoa Islands
Samoan Islands



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