Upolu
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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All 75 people aboard were successfully rescued from the vessel as it began listing off the coast of the Samoan island Upolu exactly a year ago.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025
A forensic pathologist was due to travel from Fiji to Apia, a city of 36,000 people on Samoa’s second-largest island, Upolu, to conduct an autopsy later this month.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
The deaths sent shockwaves across the tiny archipelagic nation, not just on Savai’i, the largest island, but also on Upolu, home to the capital, Apia, and most of the country’s 200,000 people.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2020
In April 1856, Henry Clay Caldwell of the United States Navy found a large, fruit-eating bat on the Samoan island of Upolu.
From Nature ● Feb. 17, 2015
Apia, the capital town of Upolu and the metropolis of the group, presents an inviting prospect from the sea, and the whole island in its general conformation is the most notable of them all.
From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou
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