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Who found Samoa?

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A dutch explorer by the name of Jacob Roggeveen first discovered Samoa in 1722.

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Nobody knows. Before the Samoans (who are Pacific Islanders of Asiatic ancestry), some Asiatic lineage is postulated, but, at this point, it is conjecture only.

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