Moso's Footprint is a two meter long depression in a basalt outcrop on the island of Savai'i in Samoa. Samoan legend holds that the giant god Moso left the footprint as a gesture of friendship toward Fiji after a diplomatic dispute, matched by a twin footprint said to exist in Fiji itself. Geologists instead attribute the depression to a fallen tree, whose roots once spread across the rock and worked into cracks in the basalt before a cyclone toppled the tree and pulled surface blocks away with it.
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According to myth, Moso's Footprint in Samoa was made when the giant Moso stepped over to Fiji from Samoa, and the other footprint can be found on Viti Levu of Fiji.
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It is a 2m long depression in basalt.
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According to myth, Moso's Footprint in Samoa was made when the giant Moso stepped over to Fiji from Samoa, and the other footprint can be found on Viti Levu of Fiji
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