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	Holidays Allover: Diving holidays - Cook Islands
		The Cook Islands are bordered to the south by Tokelau, the Samoas and Niue and to the east by Tahiti and the islands of French Polynesia.
		The northern Cook Islands (Nassau, Palmerston, Penrhyn, Manihiki, Rakahanga, Pukapuka and Suwarrow).
		The islands were proclaimed a British protectorate in 1888 and were annexed by New Zealand in 1901… in 1965 the Cook Islands chose internal self government in free association with New Zealand and are free to unilaterally declare their complete independence… the emigration of skilled workers to New Zealand and government deficits are continuing problems.
	www.holidaysallover.com.au /diving/learn_more/cook.html (1647 words)

	Cook Islands - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It consists of 15 small islands and is comprised of two main groups, the Southern (or Lower) Cook islands (Rarotonga, Mangaia, Atiu, Aitutaki, Mauke, Mitiaro, and Manuae and Te-Au-o-tu) and the Northern Cook islands (Nassau, Palmerston, Penrhyn, Manihiki, Rakahanga, Pukapuka, and Suwarrow).
		James Cook sighted some of the islands in 1773; others were not discovered until the 1820s.
		An economic crisis in the mid-1990s led to outmigration and a significant drop in the islands population.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-CookIsls.html (559 words)

	Nassau, Cook Islands
		The oval sand island of Nassau (1.2sq.km/.74sq.mi) is covered by chains of dunes up to 9m/29.5ft high and surrounded by a broad reef platform ranging in width between 90/295 and 130m/426ft, which makes landing on the island extremely dangerous.
		The island has large coconut plantations, and in the swampy depressions between the dunes taro is grown.
		The land on Nassau is worked from the neighboring island of Pukapuka.
	www.planetware.com /north-islands/nassau-cok-cok-nas.htm (99 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Of the nine islands of the Southern Group, Palmerston and Manuae are typical atolls, Aitutaki is an "almost atoll" with a central volcanic cone rising to 119 m, and Takutea is a tiny sand cay on a coral foundation.
		The principal threat to wetlands in the Cook Islands is conversion to agricultural land.
		Cook Island Waters are defined as the waters of the territorial seas and internal waters of the Cook Islands, and include waters of any rivers, streams and lakes.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/pacific/wetlands/cok_intro.htm (1989 words)

	Cook Islands Government Online
		The Cook Islands comprises 15 widely-dispersed islands in the South Pacific Ocean between French Polynesia and Fiji.
		According to the latest census undertaken in December 2002 the total resident population of the Cook Islands is 18,027 of whom 12,188 live in the outer islands.
		Seventy eight percent of the Cook Islands’ fl pearl farms are on Manihiki, 20 percent on Penrhyn and 2 percent on Rakahanga.
	www.cook-islands.gov.ck /cook-islands.php (2625 words)

	Nassau, Cook Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nassau is a very small island, located 55 miles south of Puka Puka and 175 miles of Suwarrow, with a population of around 100 people.
		The island is oval in outline, a little less than a mile long, east and west, by a half a mile wide.
		The island is surrounded by a fringing reef, 100 to 1590 yards wide on the east, south, and west, but narrower on the north.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /cook_islands/about_destin/nassau.html (942 words)

	Cook Islands — FactMonster.com
		, Mangaia, Atiu, Aitutaki, Mauke, Mitiaro, and Manuae and Te-Au-o-tu) and the Northern Cook islands (Nassau, Palmerston, Penrhyn,
		Cook Islands: Government - Government The government consists of a prime minister, a cabinet, a 24-member elected legislature,...
		Cook Islands: History - History The southern islands were probably occupied by the Polynesians c.1,500 years ago.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0813422.html (181 words)

	Cook Islands Holidays -
		Rarotonga, principal island of the Cook Islands, lies 700 miles (1130 kilometres) southeast of Tahiti, its closest neighbour.
		The island is lush green, with a dense tropical rain forest in the centre on rising mountain peaks.
		The Cook Islands are a safe comfortable place to visit and relax where most of the population speak English as well as their natural tongue of Cook Islands Maori.
	www.cookislandsholidays.com /cookis.htm (1153 words)

	The Cook Islands - General Information
		The people of the Cook Islands are Cook Islands Maori, which in their own language means "indigenous to." All the islands, except for the Samoan influenced Pukapuka and Nassau, have a similar language with some variations in dialect.
		The Cook Islands nation has twenty-five members of parliament who are elected every five years, and they choose the Prime Minister from among their group.
		The Cooks are flanked to the west by Tonga and Samoa and to the east by Tahiti and French Polynesia.
	www.netadvantage.com /cook/geninfo/ge_frame.html (1285 words)

	Cook Islands - The Economics of Culture
		One aspect of this is the debate on the 'authenticity' of Cook Islands performances and criticism that today's 'culture' is merely traces of the past rehashed in brilliant colours and forms of modern living.
		The use of land in the Cook Islands may be efficient in terms of leases being purchased by investors aiming to profit or develop beautiful property on that land.
		In a nutshell, observers would say that 'Cook Islanders are generally sociable beings, with a gutsy approach to life, not two careful about the future, mindful of the past, and not too shy to mix in aspects of living from the outside that support the above observations'.
	www.janesoceania.com /cook_culture_economics/index.htm (2164 words)

	Cook Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While the Cook Islands is in a relationship of free association with New Zealand, that relationship does not qualify the Cook Islands' plenary competence referred to above.
		The Maori translation of the Cook Islands is te Kuki Airani, not Rarotonga, the latter being the main island of this country.
		The Prime Minister of the Cook Islands flys [sic] a blue flag with the Islands' logo (combined C and I) in white in the centre.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ck.html (1510 words)

	Cook Islands - Cook Island Escapes - Cook Island Honeymoons and Cook Island Weddings. Cook Island Luxury Resorts. Cook ...
		Island traditions are on display during Cultural Festival Week (second week of February), featuring tivaevae quilt competitions and arts and crafts displays; and Island Dance Festival Week (third week of April), with dance displays and competitions culminating in the crowning of male and female Dancers of the Year.
		Avarua, the capital of the Cook Islands and Rarotonga's main town, lies in the middle of the northern coast.
		The Cook Islands Cultural Village, on Arorangi's back road, is a great experience: you'll learn more about traditional Cook Islands culture in one day here than you probably will for the rest of your stay.
	cook-islands-escapes.com (843 words)

	Nassau, Cook Islands
		Tiny Nassau is the sister island of PUKAPUKA and is the only one of the Northern Group without a lagoon.
		The island was bought by the Cook Islands Administration in 1945 and then sold to the Island Councillors and Chiefs of Pukapuka six years later.
		Elliot Smith, in the invaluable "Cook Islands Companion" describes Nassau as "a small garden of Eden".
	www.cookislands.org.uk /nassau.html (579 words)

	About The Cook Islands
		The Pacific nation of the Cook Islands comprises of 15 islands spread over 2.2 million square kilometers(849,400 square miles) of ocean in the middle of the South Pacific.
		The islands lie between Hawaii to the north, and New Zealand to the southwest.
		Traditionally, food is cooked in an umu, or ground oven, using volcanic rock and wrapping the food in the banana leaves.Food is still prepared this way for special occasions and lauge gatherings.
	www.volunteerincookislands.org /coinfo.htm (2220 words)

	Geography of the Cook Islands -- Where We Are
		THE NATION of the Cook Islands comprises 15 islands spread over 850,000 square miles (2.2 million square kilometres) of ocean smack in the middle of the South Pacific between Tonga to the west and the Society Islands to the east.
		The Cook Islands consists of two main groups, one in the north and one in the south.
		The southern group is nine "high" islands mainly of volcanic origin although some are virtually atolls.
	www.ck /geog.htm (92 words)

	Exotic Cook Islands experiences by Elite Travel Consulting.com
		The Hawaiian hula and the Tahitian tamure are probably better known because those islands have had wider publicity for the last 100 years but the Cook Islands hura is far more sensual and fierce.
		For those wanting to stay in the Cook Islands longer than 6 months, must apply for a visa from their home territory, prior to their arrival in the Cook Islands.
		This deserted island was the location used for the British TV series Shipwrecked, where 16 people were left on an uninhabited island to fend for themselves.
	www.elitetravelconsulting.com /cook_islands.htm (1556 words)

	Cook Islands : In Depth : Environment \| Frommers.com
		The Cook Islands are divided both geographically and politically into a Southern and a Northern Group.
		Except Nassau, the islands of the remote and infrequently visited Northern Group are typical atolls, with circles of reef and low coral islands enclosing central lagoons.
		The vegetation of the southern islands is typically tropical: The mountains and hills are covered with native brush, while the valley floors and flat coastal plains are studded with coconut and banana plantations and a wide range of flowering trees and shrubs.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/cookislands/3036020250.html (314 words)

	KiaOrana.com \| Nassau
		NASSAU - The only island without a lagoon, this small neighbor of Pukapuka is a virtual 'garden of Eden'.
		With numerous coconut palms, a fresh-water spring and a multitude of fresh fruit growing naturally on the island, the food supply is most adequate for the small number of residents.
		Tourist visits are rare and are usually prearranged from the island of Pukapuka.
	www.kiaorana.com /nassau.html (220 words)

	Cook Islands and the Blackbirders
		In this fortuitous manner, Byrne had happened to discover the one island in Polynesia where the people were only too eager to be recruited as a result of a devastating disease infecting their coconut palms deriving them of their main source of food.
		Tongareva is the largest atoll in the Cook Group and its characteristic pattern of dispersed settlement had led to the population living on their coconut land holdings scattered around the lagoon, rather than in villages as on the smaller atolls.
		Their prearranged rendezvous was the isolated island of Rapa, the southernmost of the Austral Group with all the fleet arriving with the exception of the Cora.
	www.janesoceania.com /cook_islands_blackbirding/index.htm (2334 words)

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		Pukapuka and the island of Nassau are the westernmost islands of the northern group of the Cook Islands.
		On Nassau all 70 residents were evacuated to two main churches which serve as cyclone shelters.
		The Cook Islands offers a perfect tropical climate with maximum summer temperatures of 29 degrees and a minimum of 22 degrees while the winter maximum is up to 25 degrees with a minimum of 19 degrees.
	www.lycos.com /info/cook-islands--miscellaneous.html (345 words)

	Cook Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Cook Islands are an independent nation consisting of a total of 15 islands throughout the south-west Pacific.
		Nine of the islands are in the southern group, Palmerston, Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mangaia, Atiu, Mauke, Mitiaro, Manuae and Taku-tea.
		The islands were discovered by James Cook and were declared a British Protectorate in 1888 but came officially under New Zealand control in 1891.
	teachingtreasures.com.au /travel/oceania/cook-islands.htm (117 words)

	Aitutaki, Cook Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Aitutaki, the second most visited Cook Island, is volcanic in type, and its highest hill, Maungapu is said to be the top of Rarotonga's Raemaru, chopped off and brought back by victorious Aitutaki warriors.
		The roads are red-brown in the centre of the island and coral white around the edge.
		The low rolling hills of the island are flanked by banana plantations and coconut groves.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /cook_islands/about_destin/aitutaki.html (433 words)

	Cook Islands Government Online
		Meanwhile Pukapuka island officials say their main concern at the moment is potential health problems caused by contaminated water.
		The Cook Islands Red Cross is preparing to send tarpaulins to the islands to be used as temporary shelters until damaged homes have been repaired to a livable state.
		The Cook Islands government in conjunction with the NZ Government and the Cook Islands Red Cross has offered up to NZ$200,000 in an emergency package to assist families in Rarotonga who had their homes damaged by the cyclones.
	www.cook-islands.gov.ck /view_release.php?release_id=743 (941 words)

	Cook Islands Biodiversity : Carica papaya - Pawpaw
		It arrived in the Society Islands in 1772 on Spanish frigate Aguila, and in Rarotonga with Tuamotu canoeists before the Missionaries arrived.
		On the Outer Islands it is called Vī Puaka, ‘pig mango’, except Aitutaki where it is Vīnītā, ‘pawpaw mango’.
		It is also cooked as a vegetable or mashed as a health drink.
	cookislands.bishopmuseum.org /species.asp?id=5878 (626 words)

	Noonsite: Cook Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Cook Islands are made up of 15 islands, spread over an area of over half a million square miles of ocean.
		As most yachts sail to the Cook Islands from the east, a good time to plan one's passage is after the 14 July celebrations in Tahiti are over, as the first week of August is the time when the Cooks put on their own festivities around Constitution Day.
		During the winter, April to November, the islands are under the influence of the SE trade winds.
	www.noonsite.com /Countries/CookIslands (333 words)

	Cook Islands Biodiversity : Search the Database
		Enter the first part of a species name in English, Latin, or Cook Islands Maori.
		Currently the Cook Islands is the only available country.
		The Island or Area option limits your search to a particular island or area where the species occurs.
	cookislands.bishopmuseum.org /search.asp (404 words)

	Nassau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Burg Nassau: "Nassau Castle", ancestral seat of the House of Nassau
		Nassau Stakes: a horse race in the UK Nassau Sound: a body of water in the U.S. state of Florida
		Nassau Station: In the video game, Dead or Alive 4, a fighting arena is modeled after a MAC station from Halo 2.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nassau (394 words)

	Cook Islands travel guide - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Cook Islands [1] are a self-governing parliamentary democracy in free association with New Zealand, located in Polynesia, in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean, between French Polynesia (Society Islands) to the east and Tonga to the west.
		The northern Cook Islands are seven low-lying, sparsely populated, coral atolls.
		The Cook Islands own history includes head hunting and a large loss of life during the earlier World War I (1914-1918) fighting for the British against the Germany and Central Powers.
	wikitravel.org /en/Cook_Islands (1090 words)

	Island Hopper Vacations Cook Islands, Samoa and Niue
		Find out more about the rich cultural history of Samoa and her outer islands, the mysterious upraised limestone formation that makes up Niue and the widely scattered volcanic and atoll islands of the Cook Islands.
		Island Hopper Vacations offers the most complete and full service inbound operations through our offices in the Cook Islands, Samoa and Niue.
		We commenced operations in the Cook Islands in 1990 followed by the Samoa office in 1994 and the Niue Operation in 1998.
	www.islandhoppervacations.com (266 words)

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