Mount Fito (''Mauga Fito'') is the second-highest mountain on the island of

Upolu Upolu is an island in Samoa, formed by a massive basaltic shield volcano which rises from the seafloor of the western Pacific Ocean. The island is long and in area, making it the second largest of the Samoan Islands by area. With approxim ...

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono Island, Manono an ...

. It is located in the

O Le Pupu-Puʿe National Park O Le Pupu-Puʿe National Park ("The Cliffs-Mountain") is the oldest national park in Samoa. Established in 1978, the park covers 5019 hectares of the southern-central portion of the island of Upolu on the border of the Atua and Tuamasaga distric ...

in the Atua district and has a height of 1149m. Fito was long-believed to be Upolu's highest point, but a visit by the

Samoa Conservation Society The Samoa Conservation Society (''Fa’asao Samoa'') is an environmental organisation based in Samoa. Its purpose is to promote the conservation of Samoa’s biological diversity and natural heritage. The society is active in efforts to save the cri ...

in 2022 determined it to be the second-highest, just 10m shorter than nearby

Mount Vaivai Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. Mount or Mounts may also refer to: Places * Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, ...

. In 1978 a Cessna aircraft operated by

South Pacific Island Airways South Pacific Island Airways (SPIA) was an airline operating flights in the Pacific including American Samoa and Hawaii with service to the west coast of U.S. and Canada as well as to Alaska, New Zealand, Guam and Tahiti from 1973 to 1987. The Fe ...

crashed into the mountain, killing all 11 people on board.

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Mountains of Samoa Volcanoes of Samoa Upolu Atua (district) {{Samoa-geo-stub