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Samoa was first sighted by Roggerwein in 1722,. He gave the Samoa Islands the name the Isles of the Navigators, when he noted how much the natives used canoes.

Seaweed farming in Kiribati

The Van Tienhoven Foundation provided Dick Watling with a grant of US$2000 to enable him to visit the islands of Late and Fonualei to determine the success of translocation efforts of the Polynesian Megapode Megapodius pritchardii to those islands in the early 1990s. This report is the formal account of the visits for the Van Tienhoven Foundation and is submitted in accordance with the conditions of the grant.