Upolu
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- In Hawai‘i ‘Upolu is the northern cape of the Big Island of Hawai‘i.
In Polynesian mythology (specifically Samoan), Upolu is the first woman on the island of the same name. In the late 18th and early 19th century, the island was sometimes called Ojalava or Ojolava. Upolu is volcanic in origin, but has not had any historically recorded eruptions.
The island is 1,125 sq km and is the most populated of the Samoan islands. Faleolo International airport is to the west of the island and the capital Apia is to the north.
In the late 19th century Robert Louis Stevenson had a four-hundred acre (1.6 km²) plantation and died here in 1894.
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