So American Samoa is a remote island, lost somewhere in the south of the wide Pacific Ocean! Eowee!
How can an island with an international airport, busy harbour, and a population of several thousand be remote?
The Australians said it is. One of their news agencies reported a planeload of travellers from the US to Sydney, stranded on the ‘remote island’ when a mechanical landed the flight in the territory.
So…if our neighbour is ‘far removed, isolated, dim and distant,’ according to the dictionary synonyms of remote, what does that make us in Apia?
Pago is only a 10 minutes flight away so if the Aussies think it’s remote then by their definition we would be too.
Remote usually gets you thinking about villages somewhere deep in the Amazon jungle or in the wilds of Africa, hard to reach by air, sea, or land.
Faleolo International lands international flights everyday. Our Matautu-tai wharf docks in thousands of Australian tourists practically every week lately?
Would that happen in a remote location?
“……are you suggesting the Aussies are getting arrogant on us, dear??