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1. (n.) Cook Islands. Kua riro 'a Rarotonga 'ei 'akapū'anga nō te pā 'enua Kūki 'Airani. Rarotonga has become a centre for immigrants from other islands in the Cook Islands; Kua 'aere mai 'aia mei te Kūki 'Airani mai. He came here from the Cook Islands. [Eng. Cook Islands.] .

1. In Kūki ‘Airani, Cook Islands. Te ‘iti tangata Māori i te Kūki ‘Airani. The Maori people in the Cook Islands. [Eng. Island.].

1. (n(tn)) Cook Islands. (< Engl. Cook Islands.) .

1. (loc.n.) A place in Kei'ā .

1. (n(tn)) the island of Mangaia, the most southern island in the Cook Islands.

1. Cook Islands Warbler. Native bird. Small, similar to minor bird, flys, brown, black spots on feathers. Book-Cook Island bio diversity.

1. The void, midair, open space, gulf. Kua topa ‘aia ki roto i te māreva. He fell into space; E kite atū ra au i tēta‘i ‘apinga mei te manu te tū i te rere‘anga nā roto i te māreva. And then I saw some-thing like a bird flying through the void; Kua riro te moana ‘ei māreva i rotopū ia Rarotonga ē te au ‘enua i roto i te Kūki ‘Airani. The ocean puts great distances between Rarotonga and the other islands in the Cook Islands; E mareva maata oki tei tukuia i rotopu ia tatou. A great gulf has been fixed between us (Luke 16.26). [mā-8, reva1.].

1. (n(tn)) Pukapuka, the most western island in the Cook Islands, close to American Samoa.

1. (n(tn)) a local name of Penrhyn. See also hararanga, māngarongaro, pēnireni. ¶ Tongareva or Penrhyn is an atoll, the northernmost island in the Cook Islands. The outline of the atoll is roughly an oblong of which the longer sides run from NW to SE, 22 km long and 14 km wide. The land area is 9.8 km2. It is located at 8°58'45" S. and 158°03'33" W. The highest point, that is somewhere along the airport on the ocean side, is 6 meters above the sea level. The distance to the closest neighbour island Rakahanga is 350 km; to the capital island Rarotonga, 1,365 km. There are two villages, Omoka and Tetautua, the former being the capital. The distance between the two is 14km and covered by an outboard in 30 minutes in normal conditions of the sea and the weather. Before the Christiananity came, people lived scattering on many isleets; on the advent of the Christianity, people were collected to form larger villages at four places: Omoka., Tetautua, Mangarongaro and Tepuka. After the Peruvian slave traders' raid in 1864, the villages in Mangarongaro and Tepuka were absorbed into the present two villages.

1. (loc.n.) The old name for the island of Rarotonga, Cook Islands .

1. (loc.n.) The name of a small island near Atiu in the Cook Islands, visited by the Aituans to make copra .

1. (loc.n.) The name of Penrhyn Island one of the Northern Cook Islands; also called Tongāreva .

1. (loc.n.) The name of one of the Northern Cook Islands; / te uru-o-te-'atu; Danger Island .

1. (loc.n.) The Tahitian name for Mangaia, brought back to the Cook Islands by men who have worked at Makatea Island .

1. (loc.n.) The name of one of the Cook Islands / 'Enūa-kura; reputed to be the exile island for Mangaians in the pre-European period .

1. (loc.n.) The name of the Island of Makogai, off Fiji, where a leprosrium to which Cook Islanders went for treatment is located .

1. (loc.n.) Îles Maria or simply Maria - the name of one of the Austral Islands, formerly used as a source of birds and fish by the Cook Islanders .

1. (loc.n.) The name of an island in the Tuamotu Archipelago; it is characterized by a raised coral reef and was formerly a source of jobs for young Cook Island men, digging phosphate .

1. (loc.n.) The name of one of the Cook Islands / 'Akatoka-manāva .

1. (loc.n.) The name of one of the Northern Cook Islands; = Manihiki .