wildlife refuge
Rose Atoll, AMERICAN SAMOA — The southernmost point of the United States is not in Florida or Hawaii… or even in the northern hemisphere. It’s here, the smallest in this chain of American Samoa islands.
To get there, we chartered a boat from Pago Pago in American Samoa, 180 miles — about an 8-hour...

![Rose Atoll bird sanctuary. [screenshot from video] A bird on Rose Atoll](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/seabirds_at_rose_atoll.jpg?itok=L5HS1fn2)