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National Park of American SamoaPeter Coleman Elementary School field trip
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Peter Coleman level 4 elementary students on park field trip.
NPS photo by Tavita Togia.
Peter Coleman Elementary School students on park field trip.
 

The park is an outdoor laboratory for Samoan schools and it offers opportunity for guided field trips. For detailed information contact the park interpreter at (684) 633-7082.

Too, the park and its staff can be a local true-life example in the value of applying oneself in school. Three quarters of the national park staff are local Samoans.
A Samoan Matai storyteller.
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Samoan fruit bats hanging at rest  

Did You Know?
Throughout the Pacific the main reason for the rarity of the two fruit bat species, or flying foxes, is that it is widely sought as a food and considered a delicacy. Sale or trade in fruit bats is now illegal in the U.S. and its territories.

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Last Updated: November 18, 2009 at 22:54 EST