Name: NP of American Samoa: The Islands of Sacred Earth
Uploaded: 2016-05-14T06:25:11Z
Duration: 2 min 25 s

NP of American Samoa: The Islands of Sacred Earth

Added on 14 May 2016

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The people of American Samoa and the National Park Service welcome you to the heart of the South Pacific, a world of sights, sounds, and experiences you will find in no other national park. The park preserves the only mixed-species paleotropical rainforest in the United States, habitat of fruit bats, and Indo-Pacific coral reefs. Also, in keeping with the meaning of the word Samoa--"sacred earth"--the park helps protect "fa'asamoa", the customs, beliefs, and traditions of the 3,000-year-old Samoan culture.