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Landmark Americas wonder

To Sua Ocean Trench

3000 BCE – still standing

Giant lava-formed swimming hole connected to the ocean by underground channels on Samoa's Upolu island

Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. No border recorded here in this snapshot (3000 BCE–400 CE)
  2. Tuʻi Tonga Empire (500 CE–600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. No border recorded here in this snapshot (700 CE–900 CE)
  4. Tuʻi Tonga Empire (1000 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Samoa (1880 CE) Border precision: Defined
  6. German Samoa (1900 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. Western Samoa (1920 CE–1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. Samoa (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Image credits 4 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Chichen Itza Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Flag of Canada (Pantone) Original: George F. G. Stanley Modified by: The original uploader was Illegitimate Barris… · Public domain
  • Machu Picchu Draceane · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Flag of Mexico Omar Alejandro Covarrubias Neri, 9 April 2006. Based on the 1968 arms by Francisco Eppens… · Public domain