Mauga
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Mauga is a village in Savai'i island in Samoa. The village is in the Gaga'emauga 1 constituency,{{cite web |url=https://www.palemene.ws/wp-content/uploads/Electoral-Constituencies-Act-2019-Eng.pdf |title=Electoral Constituencies Act 2019 |publisher=Parliament of Samoa |date=31 January 2019 |access-date=11 September 2021 |archive-date=4 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211004192918/https://www.palemene.ws/wp-content/uploads/Electoral-Constituencies-Act-2019-Eng.pdf |url-status=dead }} a sub-division of the larger Gaga'emauga district. The population is 162.{{cite web |url=https://www.sbs.gov.ws/digi/1-Preliminary%20count%20report%202016.V2.pdf |title=Census 2016 Preliminary count |publisher=Samoa Bureau of Statistics |date= |accessdate=11 September 2021}}
The word mauga means mountain in the Samoan language. The settlement is built around the crater of a small volcano.{{cite web|url=http://www.usp.ac.fj/pha/travel_info.html|work=University of the South Pacific|accessdate=28 November 2009|date=13 December 2002|title=15th Pacific History Association Conference|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524130105/http://www.usp.ac.fj/pha/travel_info.html|archive-date=24 May 2010|url-status=dead}} Mauga is in the Gaga'emauga political district near the central north coast of the island. The large meeting houses of the village are situated in a circle facing each other around the rim of the crater which can be seen in high altitude photography.
The main island road passes by the village which is situated about a 40-minute drive north west from Salelologa township and ferry terminal. To the southeast is Samalaeʻulu village and to the west Saleaula where the main road cuts through large areas of black lava fields.
The physical setting of Gaga'emauga I district contains no development along its 10 km coastline, unlike the rest of the island, due to the barren lava cliffs by the sea. Lava from the island's interior flowed in a pathway between Mauga and Samalaeʻulu to the ocean, filling the lagoon. The lava fields resulted in the settlement moving inland. There are ruins of a historic Catholic mission site on the coast.{{cite web
|url=http://www.mnre.gov.ws/projects/siam-2/documents/CIM%20Plans/Gagaemauga1IG-FE.pdf Mauga village crater
|work=Government of Samoa, Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment
|access-date=28 November 2009
|date=February 2007
|title=Coastal Infrastructure Management Plan, Gagaemauga I District
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|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121209185451/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wJ8WJJ82sc8J:www.mnre.gov.ws/projects/siam-2/documents/CIM%2520Plans/Gagaemauga1IG-FE.pdf+Mauga+village+crater&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz
|archive-date=9 December 2012
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