21. TRAVEL.com ® ... Regional:Oceania:Cook Islands Top regional Oceania cook islands cook islands The Heart of ck Thecomplete guide, it covers geography, history, culture, investment, http://www.travel.com/Regional/Oceania/Cook_Islands/

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22. Ministry Of Foreign Affairs And Trade: Pacific Division - Cook Islands Political history. The cook islands were settled in the 13th century by people from It participates actively in regional affairs through membership of bodies such http://www.mfat.govt.nz/foreign/regions/pacific/country/cookislandspaper.html

Providing information about New Zealand's international relations Pacific Division pac@mfat.govt.nz Tel: Fax: Economic Update Who's Who Cook Islands Govt. Site Cook Islands Country Paper June 2005 Key Facts General Political Economic New Zealand Trade ... Cook Islands Constitutional Act 1964 Relations with New Zealand Bilateral Linkages Development Assistance Air Services Agriculture ... Travel Advice Key Facts General Official Name Cook Islands Islands Land Area 240 sq km Population 20,400 (2003 estimate) Resident 18,000 (2001 census) Religion Christian: the majority of the population are members of the Cook Islands Christian Church Capital City Avarua, Rarotonga

23. Links Cook Islands. Information About Cook Islands, Complete Guide For Cook Isla http//www.jetsave.co.ck/raromap.htm regional Oceania cook islands Maps and Information on the geography, people, economy government and history. http://destinia.com/guide/odp/Cook Islands/30062/en

Links Cook Islands. Tourism guide for Cook Islands, information about Cook Islands, Book online or call home hotels beaches paradores ... guide All about your favorite travel destination: Europe Asia North America South America ... Africa you are in the... Travel guide Cook Islands Information about Cook Islands Browse by Cook Islands ... Luxury hotels General Information Accommodation Business Profile Climate Contact Addresses ... Travel - International Information bulletin Receive our latest offers and promotions by e-mail. Suscribe!!! Search: Cook Islands Open Directory Categories (1-5 of 5) Regional: Oceania: Cook Islands matches) Reference: Flags: Regional: Cook Islands Sports: Soccer: OFC: Cook Islands Recreation: Travel: Travelogues: Oceania: Cook Islands World: Deutsch: Regional: Ozeanien: Cook-Inseln Open Directory Sites (1-20 of 127) Cook Islands : The Heart of Polynesia - The complete guide, it covers geography, history, culture, investment, government, religion and details of each of the Cook 's 15 islands http://www.ck/

24. Cook Islands Government Online According to the oral traditions of both the cook islands and New Zealand a broadening of its membership in regional and international organisations and http://www.cook-islands.gov.ck/history.php

Voyage to Statehood Home News Releases Who's who in Cabinet CI Tourism ... Contact Us Settlement and First European Contact The 15 islands that make up the Cook Islands were settled by migrants from nearby islands in what is now French Polynesia and from Samoa in the 13th century. According to the oral traditions of both the Cook Islands and New Zealand Maori people, who share very similar languages, New Zealand was originally settled by canoe voyagers from Rarotonga. Hundreds of ocean-going vaka [canoes] are thought to have landed in New Zealand from about 1000AD - both from Rarotonga and from other islands around the Pacific region. Rarotonga is the last Pacific Island on the sailing route to New Zealand and the island would have been where the canoes replenished their supplies before making the final leg of their epic voyages. Given the well-documented navigational and sailing skills of the early ocean-going voyagers and the strength and agility of their double-hulled craft, it is quite likely that there were also some return journeys, according to some anthropologists. The most legendary migration from Rarotonga took place in 1350 when seven vakas are reputed to have set sail from Avana Harbour to make the arduous voyage to New Zealand.

25. LyricsVault: History Of Music; Cultural And Regional Genres Of Music Cultural and regional genres of music Cultural genres. By race or ethnicity Music of the cook islands (imene tuki and imene metua) http://www.lyricsvault.net/history/CulturalRegionalGenres.html

Cultural and regional genres of music Cultural genres By race or ethnicity Australian Aboriginal music (didgeridoo, Aboriginal rock) African American music (blues, gospel, soul, funk, jazz, rock 'n' roll, hip hop) Andean music (nueva cancion) Arab music (classical Arab music, rai, sout, gnawa, al-jil, chaabi) Ashkenazi music (klezmer) Basque music (trikitrixa, bersolari, shawm and drum, fasil, raks, calgia) Bedouin music (zajal) Berber music Blackfoot music Celtic music (jig, reel, strathspey, hornpipe) Garifuna music (punta, paranda, brukdown) Gypsy music (flamenco) Inuit music (katajjaq) Jewish music (piyyutim, klezmer) Kurdish music Lusophone music (fado, samba, Angolan merengue, semba, bossa nova, choro, lambada, MPB, baila, timbila, gumbe, marrabenta, morna) Maori music (kapa haka, waiata) Native American and First Nations music (chicken scratch, pow-wow, peyote song) Nordic music (pols, polska, runo, Scandinavian death metal, Finnish opera) Palestinian music (dabka, dalauna, meyjana)

26. Cook Islands Are Tamanu Resort Vacations, Cook Islands Are Tamanu Resort Honeymo cook islands history. Population 2830961 note estimates for this countryexplicitly take into account the effects regional Travel and Vacation Guides http://www.travelwizard.com/southpacific/CookIslands_History.html

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28. History Of Cook Islands - MavicaNET regional Australia and Oceania cook islands Path to the top history ofthe cook islands. From the ancient cook islandsans to the present day. http://www.mavicanet.com/directory/eng/24122.html

selCatSelAlt="Deselect category"; selCatDesAlt="Select category"; selSitSelAlt="Deselect site"; selSitDesAlt="Select site"; MavicaNET - Multilingual Search Catalog MavicaNet Lite - Light version Catalog Belarusian Bulgarian Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian (cyr.) Serbian (lat.) Slovak Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Regional Australia and Oceania Cook Islands Culture ... History of Pacific Region History of Cook Islands Sites Sister categories ... History of American Samoa History of East Timor History of Easter Island History of Fiji History of Guam History of Hawaii History of Kiribati History of New Zealand History of Norfolk Island History of Papua New Guinea History of Samoa History of Solomon Islands History of Tonga History of Vanuatu Sites No filters selected ... Web Resources News Job Education Personalia Organizations References and Indices Humor and entertainment Publications Chats and Forums Shopping History of Cook Islands Sites total: 5 Categories No Sorting Quality Title Rating Language Last Edit Time PACIFICNAVIGATOR.COM - The Cook Islands

29. World Telephone Numbering Guide history history regional Services regional Services Special Services SpecialServices What s New What s New ck , cook islands, +682 http://www.wtng.info/wtng-682-ck.html

Updated 22 December 2004 By Country Code By Country Name Other WTNG pages Acknowledgements Main Page Calendar Glossary History ... What's New Cook Islands Number Format Area Code: none Subscriber Number: 5 digits Trunk Prefix: n/a International Prefix: 00 Numbering range information DCCL Mobile numbering Cook Islands mobile subscriber numbers are of the form 55xxx (or +682 55xxx in international format). Reference: Telecom Cook Islands announcement (via ITU) Other Information See Cook Islands telecom carrier website Return to Top

30. AnthroGlobe Bibliography: The Cook Islands The Journal of Pacific history 297111. 1979 cook islands Politics The Inside regional Meeting of the Pacific islands Women tm)s Non-Governmental http://coombs.anu.edu.au/Biblio/biblio_cooks.html

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library Alphabetical Category Subtree WWW VL database Bibliography of the Cook Islands by Kristen Corey kcorey@smu.edu Last updated: 07 Feb 2005 This document is a part of a larger collection of the AnthroGlobe specialist bibliographies. It forms a subsection of the Asian Studies WWW VL and Pacific Studies WWW VL Do you have any corrections or addenda to this bibliography? If so, contact the Editor at the email address listed above. Your input will be gratefully received and acknowledged. Bibliography of the Cook Islands A B C D ... P Q R S T U ... W X Y Z A Return to Top of this page B Return to Top of this page C Return to Top of this page D Return to Top of this page Davis, T. and L. Davis 1954 Doctor to the Islands. London: Michael Joseph. 1960 Makutu. London: Michael Joseph. Davis, T.R.A. 1947 Rarotonga Today. Journal of the Polynesian Society 56:197-218. 1992 Island Boy. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific. Dixon, R. and T. Parima 1993 Mangaia and the Mission. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific. Douglas, Norman and Ngaire Douglas 1990 Cook Islands: A Guide. Alstonville, NSW, Australia: Pacific Profiles. Duerner, Frederick C. 1994 Television and Transition: The Cook Islands Experience, 1986-1993. Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara. Dumbrell, Susan, Richard Taylor, George Koteka, and Koekoe Mokoputu 1984 Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Disease: Present Activities in the Cook Islands: Report No. 2. Noumea: South Pacific Commission.

31. South Pacific Travel - Pacific Islands Books South Pacific islands South Pacific islands This regional map from the German An opinionated anthropological history of cook s three voyages and their http://www.southpacific.org/books.html

South Pacific Organizer South Pacific books at Southpacific.org Catalog: South Pacific Books books films music PACIFIC ISLANDS BOOKSTORE books about: topics Travel Maps Cruising Diving Nature Literature Language The Arts History The Pacific T R A V E L Among Stone Giants The life of Katherine Routledge and her remarkable expedition to Easter Island, by Jo Anne Van Tilburg. An Island to Oneself Tom Neale's tale of six years spent alone on Suwarrow atoll in the Cook Islands half a century ago. Blue Latitudes A Pulitzer Prize-winning author journeys in the wake of the greatest of all Pacific explorers, Captain James Cook. com uk de fr ... fr Serpent in Paradise The candid tale of a British woman who spent several months on Pitcairn secretly preparing a memoir. The Cruise of the Snark Jack London's 1911 account of his journey to the Solomon Islands aboard the 17-meter ketch Snark. The Happy Isles of Oceania Paul Theroux, the master of railway travelogues, sets out with kayak and tent to tour the Pacific. com uk de fr ... bottom M A P S Islands of Samoa A reference map of Tutuila, Manua, Upolu, and Savaii published by the University of Hawaii.

32. New Zealand (British Empire & Commonwealth Land Forces) history of the cook islands (Government of cook islands) regional. ColonialPeriod, 18001907. New Zealand Defence Forces, 1860-1883, by BL Murray. http://www.regiments.org/nations/oceania/nzealand.htm

Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills Page created 23 January 1996 Corrected and updated NEW ZEALAND and Dependencies Queen's Colour of The Officer Cadet School Major Government Sites Military News General Reference Military History ... French Revolutionary Wars Treaty of Amiens, ending French Revolutionary wars Napoleonic Wars Treaty of Paris, ending Napoleonic wars European settlement of New Zealand begins with first immigrants sponsored by the New Zealand Company Treaty of Waitingi North Island becomes a Crown Colony, separated from New South Wales Cook Islands become a British Protectorate Cook Islands become a New Zealand Protectorate New Zealand becomes a Dominion First World War Second World War New Zealand Independence Cook Islands granted internal self-government.

33. Dmoz.fr Regional Oceania Cook Islands regional Oceania cook islands regional Oceania cook islands - Open DirectoryProject it covers geography, history, culture, investment, government, http://dmoz.fr/Regional/Oceania/Cook_Islands/

34. Marine Species In The Pacific - Pacific Regional Environment Programme Currently the cook islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia Samoa In Fiji there is a history of taking dolphins and toothed whales for their http://www.sprep.org.ws/topic/marine.htm

SPREP Members News Publications ... Home Find out about: SPREP Natural resources Nature conservation Coastal management ... Legal Documents Search powered by Google Home Topic Marine species in the Pacific Marine mammals Whales Dolphins Dugongs Marine turtles Conservation issues Pollution Fisheries What SPREP is doing? Introduction The Pacific islands region is the largest continuous marine habitat on the planet, the Pacific ocean. It is home to a wide range of large marine animals including mammals like whales, dolphins, porpoise and dugongs and marine turtles. Maintaining healthy populations is essential to maintaining oceanic productivity. Marine mammals Despite efforts in certain areas and on certain species e.g. humpback whales, detailed knowledge of marine mammals is at best extremely limited. This is in part due to limited resources and expertise to undertake research in the region, the vastness of the region itself and the diversity of its marine mammals in it. Whales Blue Fin Sei Humpback recovery uncertain, currently under investigation through an integrated research programme - total population of Oceania probably of the order of 2000 animals

35. The History Of Radio New Zealand International There are some Pacific islands like the Northern cook islands that can t hear If RNZI were to fold, the only major regional international broadcast http://radiodx.com/spdxr/RNZI2.htm

The Radio Heritage Collection The History Of Radio New Zealand International RNZI's home 'Broadcasting House'. (Photo credit: David Ricquish) International broadcasting using the shortwave band has been in full force since 1927 when Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States began broadcasting overseas using high powered transmitters. Several years later the Soviet Union began a new trend when it began to broadcast programs in different languages. (Wood, 1994, p. 36) When World War II broke out, New Zealand, like other countries around the world, began to consider the need for an international broadcasting service. This service would be used to let the world know how New Zealand stood ideologically, and as a means for New Zealanders living abroad to maintain some limited contact with their country. Another determining factor was the issue of regional dominance. The major international broadcasters like the BBC, Voice of America, and Radio Australia had strong signals in the region and failure to establish a shortwave service may have been seen as handing the Pacific region over to Australia. New Zealand had strong ties with many Pacific Islands, and this service would be a way of strengthening those ties. Bryan Clark of the New Zealand Radio DX League says the original transmission consisted of a daily 2 hour broadcast of specially prepared programs. These included "Pacific Playground" a tourism show produced in conjunction with the tourism board and detailing New Zealand's appeal as a tourist destination; a weekly "Mailbox" session in which listener queries about New Zealand were answered; as well as specialist programs on Maori music and folklore, New Zealand musicians, sporting results, achievements, etc. (1985)

36. Regional: Oceania: New Zealand - Open Site Tokelau is governed by New Zealand, while the cook islands and Niue are history. The first Polynesian settlers to the country arrived around the tenth http://open-site.org/Regional/Oceania/New_Zealand/

Open Site The Open Encyclopedia Project home submit content become an editor the entire directory only in Oceania/New_Zealand Country Surface Area: 268,680 square km (includes Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands, Bounty Islands, Campbell Island, Chatham Islands, and Kermadec Islands) Population: 3,908,037 (July 2002 est.) Located in: Oceania, islands in the South Pacific Ocean Capital City: Wellington Head of State: Queen ELIZABETH II, represented by Governor General Dame Silvia CARTWRIGHT Prime Minister: Helen CLARK Independent since: 26 September 1907 (from UK) Currency: New Zealand dollar (NZD) Flag (image): Top Regional Oceania : New Zealand Auckland Bay of Plenty Canterbury Chatham Islands ... Weather and Climate Overview New Zealand is an independent Commonwealth country formed after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840. Although the Treaty of Waitangi is recognised as the founding document of New Zealand, it only became fully independent in 1947 after forty-six years of partial independence. The country consists of two main islands appropriately named the North Island and South Island. In addition to two main islands, there are also several smaller islands spread over a large area of the Pacific. Tokelau is governed by New Zealand, while the Cook Islands and Niue are dependent territories. Back to top Geography It is an isolated Pacific nation 2000 km from Australia, its nearest neighbour. To the south is Antartica, while the Pacific Island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga are situated to the North. The size of New Zealand can reasonably be compared to Japan, the British Isles or Colorado in the United States.

37. Regional: Oceania: Vanuatu: Society And Culture: History - Open Site regional Oceania Vanuatu Society and Culture history Open Site. In 1774,Captain cook named the islands the New Hebrides, a name that lasted until http://open-site.org/Regional/Oceania/Vanuatu/Society_and_Culture/History/

Open Site The Open Encyclopedia Project home submit content become an editor the entire directory only in Society_and_Culture/History Top Regional Oceania Vanuatu ... Society and Culture : History Overview The prehistory of Vanuatu is obscure; archaeological evidence supports the commonly held theory that peoples speaking Austronesian languages first came to the islands some 4,000 years ago. Pottery fragments have been found dating back to 1300-1100 B.C. The first island in the Vanuatu group discovered by Europeans was Espiritu Santo, when in 1606 the Portuguese explorer, Pedro Fernandez De Quiros, spied what he thought was a southern continent. Europeans did not return until 1768, when Louis Antoine de Bougainville rediscovered the islands. In 1774, Captain Cook named the islands the New Hebrides, a name that lasted until independence. In 1825, trader Peter Dillon's discovery of sandalwood on the island of Erromango began a rush that ended in 1830 after a clash between immigrant Polynesian workers and indigenous Melanesians. During the 1860s, planters in Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, and the Samoa Islands, in need of laborers, encouraged a long-term indentured labor trade called "blackbirding." At the height of the labor trade, more than one-half the adult male population of several of the Islands worked abroad. It was at this time that missionaries, both Catholic and Protestant, arrived on the islands. Settlers also came, looking for land on which to establish cotton plantations. When international cotton prices collapsed, they switched to coffee, cocoa, bananas, and, most successfully, coconuts. Initially, British subjects from Australia made up the majority, but the establishment of the Caledonian Company of the New Hebrides in 1882 soon tipped the balance in favor of French subjects. By the turn of the century, the French outnumbered the British two to one.

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39. LocalPin - Society And Culture In Cook Islands LocalPin regional search engine Find it where you are Art cook Islandsincludes a history of contemporary art and information about local artists. http://www.localpin.com/info/en/oceania/cook_islands/society_and_culture/

Society and Culture in Cook Islands Main MENU Home Wiki Contact About ... Help Wiki Know something about Cook Islands ? Why not contribute in the LocalPin wiki! You searched for Society and Culture in Cook Islands in English page 1 next What? Where? in Pick search term Pick location Location: Cook Islands Search for All in Cook Islands - Directly search for All matches in Cook Islands Results 1 to 7 of 7 matching Society and Culture in All in the location Cook Islands in Oceania in World Sub-categories of the Society and Culture category: History Cook Islands Ministry of Culture Website of the Cook Islands national museum and art gallery, library, archives and auditorium. http://www.culture.gov.ck record no 1 of 7 KiaOrana Information and pictures from the Cook Islands group including legends, culture, maps, books and artists. http://www.kiaorana.com record no 2 of 7 Jane's Cook Islands Detailed information on the islands of Rarotonga and Aitutaki including the people, culture, history, nature, sightseeing and dive information. http://www.janeresture.com/cookislands/index.htm

40. UNEP In Asia And The Pacific Fiji halted its use in 2000, while the cook islands and Niue are currently their history of strong regional cooperation, and the demands of other more http://www.roap.unep.org/html/nr/nr02-08.htm

Text Sitemap Search Feedback ... Programmes Press releases Reports Newsletter ROAP's Press Releases Speeches Press Releases 2000 Press Releases 2001 UNEP Media Room UNEP backs Pacific Islands for ozone-depleting substance phase-out World's first regional strategy receives nearly US$ 1 Million Bangkok, May 17, 2002 - The Pacific Islands have been given a major boost in their efforts to phase ozone-depleting substances (ODS), required under the Montreal Protocol. A meeting in Nadi, Fiji next week will plan implementation of the first 'regional-scale' ODS phase out strategy to be approved by the Protocol's Multilateral Fund. The Fund's Executive Committee allocated US$880,000 million for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - managed project at its meeting in Canada in March. The project will enable the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Palau, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu to completely phase out the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of 2005. CFCs and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), used in refrigeration and air-conditioning, and methyl bromide, a fumigant in quarantine and pre-shipment applications, deplete the ozone layer, a natural shield in the earth's upper atmosphere that filters out harmful UV rays from the sun. Pacific island countries currently consume about 50.6 tonnes of CFCs annually. Fiji halted its use in 2000, while the Cook Islands and Niue are currently preparing to ratify the Protocol, with assistance from New Zealand.

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