evidence: Aunu`u Island is one mile off the southeast tip of Tutuila (a 15-minute ferry ride), with a land mass of 0.6 square miles and a population of about 300 people. Sixty miles east of Tutuila is the Manu`a Island group (a 30-minute airplane ride or a 12 hour boat ride from Tutuila) that includes the volcanic islands of Ofu and Olosega, connected by a bridge, and the Island of Ta`u. These islands are sparsely populated, with a total 2010 Census population of 1,400 residents, and each village having a few hundred residents. The Swains Island is a privately-owned coral atoll located 214 miles north of Tutuila with approximately 1.25 square miles of land mass and a population less than 20 (2010 Census). Swains Islanders raise coconuts and grow bananas, taro, breadfruit and papaya, and supplement their diet with fish from outside of Swains' reef. Rose Island (coral atoll) lies 78 miles east of Ta`u with a landmass of 0.1 square miles, is uninhabited and is named a national monument. [...] Language: Most people are bilingual and can speak English and Samoan fluently. Samoan, a language closely related to Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages, is spoken natively by 9 percent of the people as well as the co-official language of the territory. While 80 percent speak English and Samoan, 2.4 percent speak Tongan, 2 percent speak Asian languages, and 2 percent speak other Pacific Islander languages. Tokelauan language is also spoken in Swains Island. Literacy is calculated at 97 percent.