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Afao, American Samoa

Afao is a village in southwest Tutuila Island, American Samoa.

The place

Afao is a village in southwest Tutuila Island, American Samoa. It is located on the island's short southwestern coast, between 'Amanave and Leone, to the southwest of Pago Pago. It includes the settlement of Atauloma. Afao is home to two places listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places: Afao Beach Site and Atauloma Girls School.

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Getting to Afao, American Samoa

Airports
Pago Pago (PPG), 10 km · Faleolo (APW), 142 km
  • Apia → Afao, American Samoa
    118 km · quickest by ferry, 10h 1m · $63–164
  • Vava'u Island → Afao, American Samoa
    594 km · quickest by air, 5h 43m · $250–380
  • Wallis Island → Afao, American Samoa
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No local-transport research exists yet for Afao, American Samoa

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Afao, American Samoa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf you are joining a package tour, the tour company might be able to arrange this for an extra fee; check with them to be sure.
  • Get inThe Faleolo airport in nearby Samoa has wider international connections including Air New Zealand to Auckland in New Zealand, Fiji Airways to Honolulu USA and Nadi in Fiji, Samoa Airways to Maota in Samoa and Pago Pago in American Samoa and Tongatapu in Tonga.
  • Get aroundA weekly ferry service from Pago Pago to the Manu’a Islands is provided by government operated excursion boat.
  • Get aroundRegular small ferries also offer service to and from the island of Aunuʻu.

From Wikivoyage: American Samoa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    1,277 km
  2. 02
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    3,925 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    3,949 km
  4. 04
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    5,117 km
  5. 05
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    5,671 km

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