The Whistling Duck Tribe of Shops is proud to have selected Samoa as its Commonwealth Games Team and looks forward to what will be a great lead up and Event next year .
Samoa" the sacred centre of the universe " is a chain of islands located south of the equator, about halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand in the Polynesian region of the Pacific Ocean. The total land area is 2,842 km² (1,097 sq mi), consisting of the two large islands of Upolu and Savai'i which account for 99% of the total land area, and eight small islets
Modern Samoan people are descended from a proud seagoing warrior tribal society for whom family and community means everything. With influences from Germany , the USA , France ,England and New Zealand .
Due to these multicultural colonial influences the Samoan culture has had to fight hard to keep its identity and still grow to become what it is today, an independent society of life celebration.
The reason The Whistling Duck Village has adopted Samoa for the Commonwealth games is that we too are like a group of islands all bonded together, individual in nature however fiercely community orientated .
We all have a mindset of Earth, healing and the sacred .