German Samoa
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German Samoa, officially the Kingdom of Samoa, was a German protectorate from 1900 to 1920, consisting of the islands of Upolu, Savaiʻi, Apolima and Manono, now wholly within the Independent State of
Saluafata harbour (R. Hellgrewe, 1908), 10 miles east of Apia
Raising the German flag at Mulinuʻu, 1900 (photo by Alfred James Tattersall)
Group with Governor Wilhelm Solf (wearing peaked cap), New Zealand parliamentarian Charles H. Mills and paramount chief Mata'afa Iosefo during a visit by Mills to German Samoa, 1903
Governor Wilhelm Solf at Apia in 1910
Samoan crisis
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The Samoan crisis was a standoff between the United States, the German Empire, and the British Empire from 1887 to 1889 over control of the Samoan Islands during the First Samoan Civil War.
SMS Adler, knocked over on the beach, 1889.
SMS Adler, view of her deck, 1889.
The wreck of SMS Adler, circa 1938
The wreck of USS Nipsic′