President Donald Trump issued an executive order Thursday overturning an Obama-era ban on commercial fishing in the nearly ...

Scientists have found a chain of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, which are situated in the sea between French Polynesia and American Samoa — a beautiful forgotten territory of the United ...

Settling the islands of the Pacific Ocean was one of ... Sailors started off with the wind at their backs, but near Samoa the wind reverses and they were stranded. Eventually they learned to ...