Nafanua (04) is a Pacific Forum patrol vessel operated by Western Samoa's police.[1] Like her 21 sister ships she was built in Australia. After the United Nations Convention on the Laws of the Seas extended maritime nations' exclusive economic zones to 200 kilometres (110 nmi) Australia agreed to give its smaller neighbours in the Pacific Forum patrol vessels of their own, so they could police their own sovereignty.[2]Nafanua is the ship Australia gave to Samoa.
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