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Exactly where is Robert Louis Stevenson buried?
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#106343. Asked by storky1. (Jun 15 09 2:59 AM)
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laoi
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He is buried on Upolu which is a Samoan island in the Pacific Ocean:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson#Last_years
During the morning of 3 December 1894, he had worked hard as usual on Weir of Hermiston. During the evening, while conversing with his wife and straining to open a bottle of wine, he suddenly exclaimed, "What's that!" He then asked his wife, "Does my face look strange?" and collapsed beside her. He died within a few hours, probably of a cerebral haemorrhage, at the age of 44. The natives insisted on surrounding his body with a watch-guard during the night and on bearing their Tusitala upon their shoulders to nearby Mount Vaea, where they buried him on a spot overlooking the sea.
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gtho4

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The summit of Vaca Mountain in Samoa.
He finally found his paradise on the Island of Samoa, high on the slope of Vaca Mountain where he constructed a large house and dubbed the estate "Vailima" (Five Rivers). At the age of 44, while sitting on the veranda with his wife, he suffered a brain hemorrhage which took his life. Local Samoans constructed a hardwood coffin. The following day, they in relay teams took him to the summit of Vaca and buried him while conducting a Presbyterian service. Later a crude sarcophagus was constructed over the grave inscribed with his most famous poem "Requiem," ending with the verse, 'Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter home from the hill' After his death, his wife Fanny returned to California. She died in 1914 was cremated and her ashes were returned to Samoa and buried beside her husband
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3770
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