《英文msh詞典》Navigator Island
[入口詞] Navigator Island
[主題詞] Samoa
[英文釋義] A group of islands in the southwest central Pacific,divided into AMERICAN SAMOA and the INDEPENDENT STATE OF SAMOA (Western Samoa). First European contact was made in 1722 by Jacob Roggeveen,a Dutchman. In 1768 they were named Navigators Islands by Louis de Bougainville. The present name may derive from that of a local chieftain or from a local word meaning place of the moa,a now-extinct island bird. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary,1988,p1061 & Room,Brewer's Dictionary of Names,1992,p481)