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Aua

Aua was an Inuk angakkuq known for his anthropological input to Greenland anthropologist Knud Rasmussen.

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As a spiritual healer practicing into the 1920s, Aua provided perspective on Inuit mythology at a time when it was being subsumed by the introduction of Christianity. Aua told the story of his cousin's mother Uvavnuk, whose song "The Great Earth" is still popular.

How locals move

Getting around Aua the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-08.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.