**Acknowledgements**

This research was supported by NIWA through New Zealand government strategic science investment funding (SSIF), projects CARH1902 and PRAS1901. Itrax data for Samoa and 210Pb dates reproduced in this study were obtained in 2012 through the Australian Institute for Nuclear Sciences and Engineering (AINSE) Grant 12/119. The author acknowledges Tim Davies, Catherine Chagué, Atun Zawadzki, Patricia Gadd, James Goff, Ilyas Qasim, Johnny Ah Kau, Faigame Sale and Mulipola Ausetalia Titimaea for their contributions to earlier associated aspects of this study.

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