American Samoa
About American Samoa
American Samoa is a self-governing, unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States located in the south Pacific Ocean, within the Polynesia subregion of Oceania. Centered on 14.3°S 170.7°W, it is 40 miles (64 km) southeast of the island country of Samoa, east of the International Date Line and the French territory of Wallis and Futuna, west of the Cook Islands, north of Tonga, and some 310 miles (500 km) south of Tokelau. American Samoa is the southernmost territory of the United States, situated 2,200 miles (3,500 km) southwest of the U.S. state of Hawaii, and one of two U.S. territories south of the Equator, along with the uninhabited Jarvis Island.
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Australia holds the record win when they beat American Samoa 31-0 in 2001. What happened was the American Samoa team all had passport issues, so all but one of the players couldn't get out of the country.
from No Such Thing As A Herd Of Koalas, 2016-03-11 at 00:24:49 · read transcript
Other times American Samoa came up
Quite a lot more members, actually. It's got 17 more members than the UN. Most of these members are tiny little colonies like American Samoa, Anguilla, Aruba, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Curacao, Faroe Islands, Guam, Hong Kong is a member of FIFA, Macau, Montserrat, New Caledonia, Palestine is a member of FIFA, but not of the UN. Of course, Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales.
17: No Such Thing As A Bassoon In A Football Stadium, 2014-07-11 · listen
Oh, really? They decided to join America's time. If you look down the international date line, it's got a really weird kink in it. It's not a line at all because it scoops these islands in. Is that Samoa or American Samoa or Tonga? No, Samoa is different. Samoa is the one that went in 2011. It decided to go back a day, didn't it? It missed out the 30th of December 2011.
45: No Such Thing As A Travelator In Ancient Rome, 2015-01-31 · listen
They decided to join America's time. If you look down the international date line, it's got a really weird kink in it. It's not a line at all, because it scoops these islands in. Is that Samoa or American Samoa or Tonga? No. Samoa's the one that went in 2011, it decided to go back a day, didn't it? It missed out the 30th of December 2011. Sorry, it went forward a day, but I did get an extra day on the 4th of July, 1882.
No Such Thing As A Travelator In Ancient Rome, 2015-01-30 · listen
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Coordinates: -14.3000, -170.7000