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Village in American Samoa, United States

Amaua, American Samoa

Amaua is a village in the southeast of Tutuila Island, American Samoa located on the north shore of Faga'itua Bay between Alega and Faga'itua.

The place

Amaua is a village in the southeast of Tutuila Island, American Samoa located on the north shore of Faga'itua Bay between Alega and Faga'itua.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Amaua, American Samoa

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Rainmaker Mountain

    Rainmaker Mountain is the name of a mountain located near Pago Pago, American Samoa on Tutuila Island. Rainmaker Mountain traps rain clouds and gives Pago Pago the highest annual rainfall of any harbor.

    3.4 km · mountain in American Samoa · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Amaua, American Samoa

Airports
Pago Pago (PPG), 11 km · Faleolo (APW), 158 km
  • Apia → Amaua, American Samoa
    133 km · quickest by ferry, 9h 41m · $50–145
  • Vava'u Island → Amaua, American Samoa
    603 km · quickest by air, 5h 33m · $230–350
  • Wallis Island → Amaua, American Samoa
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Amaua, 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 Amaua, 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

    1,262 km
  2. 02
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    3,940 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    3,969 km
  4. 04
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    5,134 km
  5. 05
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    5,691 km

If you know how people move in Amaua, American Samoa – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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