Kiribati

“It began to dawn on me then that, beyond the teeming romance that lies in the differences between men – the diversity of their homes, the multitude of their ways of life, the dividing strangeness of their faces and tongues, the thousand-fold mysteries of their origins – there lies the still profounder romance of their kinship with each other, a kinship that springs from the immutable constancy of man’s need to share laughter and friendship, poetry and love in common. A man may travel a long road and suffer much loneliness, before he makes that discovery.”

from ‘A Pattern of Islands’ by Arthur Grimble (1952)

Samoa

American Samoa beach scene

Simplicity is swinging on a tyre suspended from a palm tree on beach in the South Pacific paradise of Samoa. The main island of American Samoa is a short flight to the east.  The Samoan islands form part of Polynesia.

Tourism websites:
Map …
Samoa …
American Samoa …
Polynesian Airlines …
air travel in the S.Pacific …
Pacific Blue Airline …
photos of American Samoa National Park …

Oceania … comprised of Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia

Other US Pacific Ocean locations that might interest:-

Republic of the Marshall Islands …
Guam …
Federated States of Micronesia (Caroline Islands) …  also see Micronesia …
Republic of Palau …
Palmyra Island …
Wake Island …
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands …
US Minor Outlying Islands …