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	Birds \| Atiu Island
		Atiu's birds were plundered as food and decoration by the early polynesians.
		The Atiu community is now active in re-establishing Atiu place as the land of the birds in the Cook Islands and this activity has resulted in rapid increases in most species.
		released at Atiu Villas on Atiu in 2002
	www.atiu.info /birds (612 words)

	Air Rarotonga - the Airline of the Cook Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Atiu is unique in the Cook Islands in that its five contiguous villages are located on the dome in the centre of the raised atoll.
		Atiu - taught the Atiuans how to brew an alcoholic beverage based on the fruit of the orange trees which the missionaries had introduced to the island.
		The makatea zone of Atiu is pocked with caves, many of which were used as repositories for the bones of the deceased in the old days.
	www.airraro.com /atiu.html (451 words)

	Welcome \| Atiu Island
		Atiu Island, also known as Enuamanu (land of the birds) lies 187 kilometres northeast of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands.
		The Atiu Island population of 569 (1/12/06) is divided into 5 villages that radiate out from the centre of the island on a flat-topped central plateau.
		One, 'Atiu Coffee' is known as a gourmet coffee in many parts of the world.
	www.atiu.info (361 words)

	Andrew and Michelle Casad's Website: Atiu Photographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Atiu is geographically the third largest of the Cook Islands totaling 10 square miles (26 square kilometres).
		Atiu is an historically important island with ties not only to other islands in the Cooks (especially Mauke and Mitiaro over which the people of Atiu lorded), but to Tahiti as well.
		This is the site of another lake on Atiu, although the water level has dropped and it is now merely a swamp land, with planted taro swamps on the inland side of it.
	www.nd.edu /~acasad/atiu.html (1744 words)

	Atiu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Atiu, is the third largest island of the Cook Islands.
		Atiu’s main village lies at the centre of the island on the hilly inland area and is a quiet community where life doesn’t hurry.
		Atiu is riddled with caves, some filled with fresh water where you can go for an underground swim, others sacred housing for the bones of Atiu’s ancestors and most famously, Anatakitaki, the Cave of the Kopeka.
	www.tipanitours.com /Areas/Locations.aspx?ID=3 (760 words)

	Atiu in the Cook Islands, southern group, South Pacific Ocean
		There was once a custom on Atiu similar to that of New Zealand Maori of burying a newborn child's placenta under a newly planted tree.
		This is the origin of the Atiuan saying: "We come from the land and go back to the land." The Atiuans were a fierce, warrior people and before the arrival of the missionaries busied themselves with making war on their neighbors on Mauke and Mitiaro, slaughtering and eating significant numbers of them.
		Atiu is a great place for active travellers and holidaymakers who enjoy scenery and walking.
	www.ck /atiu.htm (481 words)

	Atiu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Atiu had been suffering near drought conditions for the past eight weeks.
		Atiu's economy was feeling the pain of the austerity regime introduced in 1997 to bring the Cook Islands back onto an accountable, free market basis.
		Her husband runs the Atiu coffee factory, whose product is exported in whole bean form to Rarotonga and New Zealand.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /cook_islands/about_destin/atiu.html (1518 words)

	Atiu Island, Cook Islands - Cook Island Honeymoons and Cook Island Weddings. Cook Island Luxury Resorts. Cook Island ...
		The island of Atiu is the third largest in the Cooks group, located 215 kilometres northeast of Rarotonga.
		Atiu is a small volcanic island, with central elevated flat-toped mass of volcanic rock incised by sharp edged gullies and surrounded by a raised coral limestone reef called a Makatea.
		Atiu is part of the Ngaputoru (three roots) group.
	cook-islands-escapes.com /atiu.html (654 words)

	Map of Atiu Cook Islands
		The island of Atiu is an ancient uplifted coral island whose limestone cliffs and rocky coastline make for fascinating exploration.
		The five villages of Atiu are all close together on the central plateau above the rocky makatae that encircles the coastline.
		The traditional fermentation of wine from fruits is widely practised on Atiu and there are many "Tumunu Bush Bars" to sample the brew and chat with the locals.
	www.the-cook-islands.com /atiu.html (687 words)

	Atiu Cook Islands Southern Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The people of Atiu have created their own web site which tells you everything you could possibly want to know about the island, the residents and their lifestyle.
		Atiu was once a volcano which sank leaving a coral reef around a low plateau.
		Atiu's five villages of Areora, Ngatiarua, Teenui, Mapumai and Tengatangi form a man-like figure in the centre of island.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /jwroberts/atiu.html (537 words)

	Atiu Coffee Factory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		On Atiu, under the supervision of New Zealand Resident Agent Ron Thorby and the Cook Islands Agriculture Department, new coffee plantations were established.
		Atiu Coffee Factory manages two farms of a total of 32 acres.
		On account of an agreement with the Atiu Coffee Growers Association, coffee is not sold as green beans.
	adc.co.ck /factory.htm (396 words)

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	www.alpha-tele.net /web/main/legalnotice.html (939 words)

	Atiu Cook Islands, Travel and Accommodation Guide
		Atiu is the most developed of the outer Southern Islands, but tourism is still quite limited with just six places to stay.
		Atiu is renowned for its bush beer, a tradition from the days of old when the drinking of Kava was banned by the missionaries.
		Atiu is serviced five times a week by Air Rarotonga - one of these flights connects on to Aitutaki and vice versa.
	www.cook.islands-travel.com /atiu.html (559 words)

	NAME Atiu Swamps and Lake Tiroto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		PHYSICAL FEATURES Atiu (26.9 sq.km) is a volcanic island with a broad terrace of raised coral limestone (makatea) surrounding the remains of the original volcanic cone.
		The undulating volcanic plateau in the centre of the island reaches a peak at 91 m.
		Atiu has one endemic bird species, the Atiu Swiftlet (Aerodramus sawtelli), and endemic subspecies of the Cook Islands Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus rarotongensis goodwini) and Chattering Kingfisher (Halcyon tuta atiu).
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/wetlands/atiu_tir.htm (401 words)

	Samoa - Rarotonga - Aitutaki - Atiu
		There was quite a crowd at the airport and it looked as though the whole island had come to greet us, but in fact they were waiting for relatives arriving on a commercial flight from Rarotonga that landed 10 minutes later.
		The people of Atiu live in the centre of the island instead of on the coast.
		He is also married to an Atiu woman and has several children, some of whom are adopted according to local custom.
	www.honeymooney.com /world/logbook/logbook40.htm (1833 words)

	Cook Islands Government Online
		The Atiu water project which involves the installation of seventy-five 5000 litre water tanks for private households, has begun.
		Rarotonga-based project officer John George, who is now on Atiu supervising this and several other projects, says 25 water tanks are already on the island and another 50 are expected to arrive on the next ship.
		Atiu Day was a huge success and raised about $70,000 which will go towards renovation of the Atiu Hostel on Rarotonga.
	www.cook-islands.gov.ck /view_release.php?release_id=300 (273 words)

	Cook Islands Government Online
		Atiu mayor Aneru Tautu should stop worrying about the island’s budget because he is unlikely to be mayor for much longer, says MP Norman George.
		Tautu claimed the machinery, which will be used to complete a number of important infrastructure projects, was not a priority for Atiu and said the water crisis was at the top of the list.
		But George says he and fellow Atiu MP Upoko Simpson are the ones who fight for the Atiu budget in Cabinet and at Parliament, and Tautu has never contributed to final budget decisions.
	www.cook-islands.gov.ck /view_release.php?release_id=571 (474 words)

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		She was referring to Rarotonga, the main island in the 15-island cluster known as the Cook Islands, named after the Englishman Captain James Cook, the Great Circumnavigator, who charted much of the Pacific in the 18th century.
		I learned that Aitutaki and Atiu dancers were among the consistent winners in various South Seas dance competitions.
		Atiu, described earlier, was an unusual island because it was a thickly-wooded plateau, with villages in the center rather than around the shore.
	www.fostertravel.com /CRUPAC.html (2801 words)

	Atiu Island
		Taungaroro is Atiu's best beach with beautiful white sand and swimming is possible at high tide.
		The coral reef is rugged, biush clad and riddled with caves.
		Atiu is also the home of Atiu Coffee known as a gourmet coffee in many parts of the world.
	www.jetsave.co.ck /atiu_island.htm (1171 words)

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	www.alpha-tele.net /web/main/privacypolicy.html (588 words)

	Traveljournals.net - Paw Paw Trees and Turquise Seas (Part II), Atiu, Cook Islands
		They'd only been married a few years, Laurie had been a teacher and had spent most of her life travelling, she'd visited an amazing 140 countries over the years and was still going strong with plans for further trips on her return to New York.
		Apparently the reason there are so many wild pigs on Atiu is because during the Sydney Olympics a lot of the islanders went over to Australia to volunteer and never returned, leaving their pigs to run amok on the island and get more wild with each generation.
		There are several Tumunus on Atiu, fortunately the one we went to was very open and friendly to women and foreign visitors.
	www.traveljournals.net /stories/2776.html (1742 words)

	atiu facts
		If you look on the South Pacific page in an atlas, with only 27 km² Atiu often appears no larger than a fly dropping right in the centre fold, if it can be found at all.
		When John Williams of the London Missionary Society arrived on Atiu some 46 years later, this red fabric served as proof that the island that Cook had recorded as "Wateeoo" was, indeed, Atiu.
		One of Atiu's high chiefs, Ngamaru Ariki, was prince consort to queen Makea who, for fear of take-over by the French from neighbouring Tahiti, begged Britain for protection in 1888.
	www.atiutourism.com /atiu_facts.htm (784 words)

	Atiu Feature
		The outer island of Atiu was home for two night last week when I visited the island to attend the petition hearing between Tumu Enua leader Norman George and Democratic Party candidate Eugene Tatuava for the constituency of Tengatangi-Areora-Ngatiarua.
		When returning to the airport to wait for the flight on Friday afternoon, trucks were lined up under the coconut trees with people leaving on the flight, some waiting for arriving passengers and other just there for a peek at who is leaving or arriving.
		Here are just some of the images of the youngsters on Atiu waiting for the plane and the beginning of their school holidays on Rarotonga.
	www.cinews.co.ck /atiu-flash.htm (420 words)

	Noonsite: Cook Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Atiu is a small volcanic island, with central elevated flat-topped mass of volcanic rock incised by sharp edged gullies and surrounded by a raised coral limestone reef called a Makatea.
		Atiu is famous for its cave dwelling Kopeka (Atiu swiftlet) bird and Tumunu bush beer parties.
		Members of the Atiu community make regular trips to the island to monitor the sanctuary's condition.
	www.noonsite.com /Countries/CookIslands?a=SouthernGroup (1021 words)

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