Alofau (Samoan: Ālōfau) is a village on the southeast coast of Tutuila Island, American Samoa. It is located at the eastern end of Faga'itua Bay, six miles east of Pago Pago, between Pagai and Amouli. It is home to Alofau Village Marine Protected Area. It is an agrarian and traditional village. It is lauded as a kava place in the Manu'a Songs.Krämer, Augustin (2000). The Samoa Islands: An Outline of a Monograph With Particular Consideration of German Samoa. University of Hawaii Press. Page 435. . Alofau is located in Sa'ole County.Tu’u’u, Misilugi Tulifau Tofaeono (2002). History of Samoa Islands: Supremacy & Legacy of the Malietoa (na Fa'alogo i Ai Samoa). Tuga'ula Publication. Page 427. .Krämer, Augustin (2000). The Samoa Islands. University of Hawaii Press. Page 424. .
Alofau Volcano is a major named volcano on Tutuila Island, although it is sometimes regarded as part of Pago Volcano.https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/938/1/v39n4-311-320.pdf (Page 4).Nunn, Patrick D. (1998). Pacific Island Landscapes. Page 165. .
Great surfing conditions can be found in Faga'itua Bay near Alofau.Schyma, Rosemarie (2013). Südsee. DuMont Reiseverlag. Page 268. .
An Adventist congregation had been established in the village by 1956.Watt, Abbie Le'ala Lam Yuen (2000). Tini: Trailblazer in the Wake of the Pitcairn. Teach Services, Inc. Page 53. .
History In 1914, Max Haleck of Dessau, Germany, arrived in Alofau. After leaving Germany to explore the Pacific, he joined the South Seas Trading Company and worked as a trader, exchanging fishhooks for copra and selling copra to the government for export. His son Otto (b. 1920) later took over and expanded the family enterprises into groceries, hardware, real estate, and development—especially in Tafuna; another son, Max Haleck Jr., purchased the Sadie Thompson Inn.Shaffer, Robert J. (2000). American Samoa: 100 Years Under the United States Flag. Island Heritage. Page 165. .
Geology Alofau Volcano consists of thin-bedded aa and pāhoehoe flows, breccias, dikes, and tuffs exposed in a shield-shaped dome. The volcanic dome covers around 2,4 km2. on the east side of Faga'itua Bay. The volcano is built over a rift zone trending northeast–southwest. The lava flows are thinly bedded primitive olivine basalts, dipping 10-20 degrees away from Alofau village. A dike complex is exposed on the road southeast of Fagaitua village, while another 130 dikes are exposed in a promontory on the north side of Alofau. Large numbers of dikes are also seen south of Alofau village.Keating, Barbara H. and Barrie R. Bolton (2012). Geology and Offshore Mineral Resources of the Central Pacific Basin. Springer Science & Business Media. Page 152. .
Demographics Year Population 2020 296 2010 646 2000 495 1990 458 1980 418 1970 378 1960 316 1950 304 1940 134 1930 103
Notable people Faauuga Suesue Lutu Achica, president of the National Women’s Council of American Samoa and the Chairperson of the American Samoa Red Cross.Sunia, Fofō Iosefa Fiti (2001). Puputoa: Host of Heroes - A record of the history makers in the First Century of American Samoa, 1900-2000. Suva, Fiji: Oceania Printers. Pages 2-3. ISBN 9829036022.
See also Alofau Village Marine Protected Area
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