Saleaula Lava Fields

Gaga'emauga · Samoa

Saleaula Lava Fields, Samoa
Photo: NASA uploaded by Teinesavaii, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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A hardened black lava plain on Savai'i left by early twentieth-century eruptions that buried villages. The ruins of a church partly filled with cooled lava remain a striking landmark.

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