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Cook Islands

Self-governing island nation in free association with New Zealand

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The capital is Avarua on Rarotonga, and the 2021 census recorded a total population of 14,987.[1][2] Located in the South Pacific Ocean, the Cook Islands is an associated state of New Zealand that governs itself while in free association with it.[1][3]

Geography and history

Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira sighted Pukapuka in 1595, the first European contact.[4] A constitution was promulgated on 4 August 1965, granting self-government.[5] The islands are a representative democracy with a parliamentary system in an associated state relationship with New Zealand.[6] Polynesian migrants, believed to have come from Tahiti, first settled the Cook Islands around AD 1000.[7]

A Russian naval chart from the 1820s, published by Adam Johann von Krusenstern, was the first to display the name "Cook Islands".[8] At the start of World War I, the Cook Islands sent nearly 500 men to fight, organized into five contingents.[9] Marae Moana was created by the Cook Islands on 13 July 2017, at that time becoming the largest protected area on the planet.[10]

What the cited sources add

The "Lords of the Dance" account states that individuality between islands is the hallmark of Cook Islands culture, reflecting varied migration sources and vast distances.[11] That source notes that all islands employed a chiefly system based on traditional legends of migration and settlement.[11] The account describes Cook Islands drumming as world famous, but states that misinformation in the USA gives the false impression that the wooden drums originate from Tahiti.[11] It also states that new Tahitian names for old Cook Islands rhythms are being presented as original or traditional Tahitian.[11]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Cook Islands" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Fisheries, Ecosystems and Biodiversity. Sea Around Us (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Cook Islands" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "2018 Census ethnic group summaries – Cook Islands Maori", Statistics New Zealand; "Ancestry 1st response (ANC1P)", Australian Bureau of Statistics, 15 October 2021; "Cook Islands welcome more visitors", Radio New Zealand, 13 February 2019 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Cook Islands" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Cook Islands", New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Cook Islands" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hooker, "European discovery of the Cook Islands", Terrae Incognitae, 1998, p. 54–62 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Cook Islands" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; "Cook Islands profile – Timeline", BBC News, 9 January 2018 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Cook Islands" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Spurrier, "Nationalism and Sovereignty in Niue, the Cook Islands, Fiji and Hawai‘i", uwo.scholaris.ca, 30 October 2018 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Cook Islands" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Chikamori, "Development of coral reefs and human settlement: Archaeological research in the Northern Cook Islands and Rarotonga", Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, 1996, p. 45–52; Kenneth P. Emory, "East Polynesian Relationships: Settlement Pattern and Time Involved as Indicated by Vocabulary Agreements", Journal of the Polynesian Society, 1963, p. 78–100 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Cook Islands" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Cook Islands Government website", Cook-islands.gov.ck (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Cook Islands" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Manava Toa: the Cook Islands in WWI", Auckland Museum (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Cook Islands" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Cook Islands Marae Moana legislation passed", RNZ, 13 July 2017 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. "Lords of the Dance : Culture of the Cook Islands", Ck, 12 November 2013. facts only, no text reused. ck

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Cook Islands (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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