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The Samoan archipelago is situated in the South Pacific Ocean at a latitude of 13°–15° S and a longitude of 168°–173° W, and runs in a west-northwest direction east of Fiji, north of Tonga, south of Tokelau, and west of Niue and the Cook Islands. Its nine inhabited islands and several uninhabited islets, plus two distant coral islands, have a total area of ca. 3,100 km2.
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Whistler, W.A. (1995). The Cloud Forest of Samoa. In: Hamilton, L.S., Juvik, J.O., Scatena, F.N. (eds) Tropical Montane Cloud Forests. Ecological Studies, vol 110. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2500-3_26
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