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Nu‘uuli

Nuʻuuli is a village on the central east coast of Tutuila Island, American Samoa.

The place

Nuʻuuli is a village on the central east coast of Tutuila Island, American Samoa. It is located on a peninsula several miles up from Pago Pago International Airport. Nuʻuuli is located between Pago Pago International Airport and Coconut Point. It is a shopping district which is home to stores, groceries and many more shops. In the early 20th century, Nuʻuuli was the headquarters for the Mau movement in American Samoa.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nu‘uuli

6 places 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
    Matafao Peak

    Matafao Peak is a mountain in American Samoa, on the island of Tutuila. With an elevation of 2,142 feet, it is the highest peak on Tutuila Island.

    2.9 km · mountain in United States of America · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cathedral of the Holy Family in Pago Pago

    The Cathedral of the Holy Family is a late 20th-century church that serves as the Cathedral—together with the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph the Worker—of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Samoa–Pago Pago in American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States.

    2.2 km · church in American Samoa, United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    American Samoa's at-large congressional district

    American Samoa's at-large congressional district encompasses the entire U.S. territorial region of American Samoa. The territory does not have a voting member of Congress but does elect a delegate who can participate in debates and vote in committees of which they are a member.

    3.3 km · at-large U.S. House district for American Samoa · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Pala Lagoon

    Pala Lagoon is an indentation in the south coast of Tutuila Island in American Samoa. The villages of Nuʻuuli and Tafuna are located on its shore.

    1.9 km · lake in Eastern District, American Samoa · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    American Samoa Community College

    American Samoa Community College is a public land-grant community college in the village of Mapusaga, American Samoa. Only legal residents of American Samoa who have graduated from high school or obtained a General Equivalency Diploma are admitted to ASCC. It is American Samoa's only tertiary education institution.

    2 km · land-grant community college in Mapusaga, American Samoa · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Tradewinds Hotel

    Tradewinds Hotel is a luxury hotel in Ottoville, American Samoa. The hotel has 104 guest rooms, 43 suites and 8 large suites.

    2 km · building in Ottoville · 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.

Go there

Getting to Nu‘uuli

Airports
Pago Pago (PPG), 2 km · Faleolo (APW), 149 km
Stations
Pago Pago International Airport, 2 km
  • Apia → Nu‘uuli
    127 km · quickest by ferry, 9h 33m · $45–138
  • Vava'u Island → Nu‘uuli
    602 km · quickest by air, 5h 31m · $230–350
  • Wallis Island → Nu‘uuli
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nu‘uuli

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 Nu‘uuli. 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

    1,270 km
  2. 02
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    3,931 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    3,957 km
  4. 04
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    5,124 km
  5. 05
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    5,679 km

If you know how people move in Nu‘uuli – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Nu‘uuli

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  • Vaitogivillage in American Samoa3.6 km
  • Faleniuvillage in American Samoa2.7 km
  • Fagasavillage in American Samoa, United States3.4 km
  • Malaeimihuman settlement in American Samoa1.2 km
  • Mesepavillage in Western District, American Samoa, United States of America2.7 km