Tau Airport
Tau Airport was a privately owned, private-use airport located 1.6 kilometers southeast of the village of Ta‘ū on the island of Ta‘ū in American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States.- Type: Abandoned airfield
- Description: airport in Manu’a District, United States of America
- Also known as: “TAV”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tui Manuʻa Graves Monument.
Tui Manuʻa Graves Monument
Protected area
The Tui Manuʻa Graves Monument is a funerary marker and grave site on the island Taʻū, the largest island of the Manuʻa group in American Samoa. It is located northwest of the junction of Taʻū Village and Taʻū Island Roads on the west side of the island. Tui Manuʻa Graves Monument is situated 1,800 feet west of Tau Airport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ta’u and Faleasao.
Ta’u
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Taʻū is the largest inhabited island in the Manuʻa Islands in American Samoa and the easternmost volcanic island of the Samoan Islands. In the early 19th century, the island was sometimes called Opoun.
Faleasao
Village
Faleāsao is a village in American Samoa. Administratively, it is located in Faleāsao County, Manuʻa District, on the northern shore of Taʻū Island. It is divided into two sub-villages: Siʻuaʻi, consisting of the eastern half; and Tufulele, consisting of the western half.
Fitiuta
Village
Fitiuta, also known as Fiti'uta or Maia, is a village on the northeast coast of Taʻū island, one of the Manuʻa Islands in American Samoa. As of the 2010 United States census, it had a population of 153. Fitiuta is situated 6 miles east of Tau Airport.
Tau Airport
- Categories: airport and transportation
- Location: Manuʻa Islands, American Samoa, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Tau Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tau Airport”
- French: “aérodrome de Ta‘ū”
- French: “Aérodrome de Ta‘ū”
- Indonesian: “TAV”
- Italian: “Aeroporto di Taʻu”
- Japanese: “タウ空港”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Tau”
- Persian: “TAV”
- Persian: “فرودگاه تاو”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Tau”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Tau”
- Russian: “Тау (аэропорт)”
- Russian: “Тау”
- Swedish: “Tau Airport”
- Welsh: “Maes Awyr Tau”
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