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Rakahanga is part of the Cook Islands,
situated in the central-southern
Pacific Ocean. The
unspoilt atoll is 1,248
kilometres (775 miles) from the Cook...
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Rakahanga-Manihiki is a
Tahitic language belonging to the
Polynesian language family,
spoken by
about 2500
people on
Rakahanga and
Manihiki Islands (part...
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Rakahanga Island is one of 11
islands in the
Rakahanga atoll of the Cook Islands. It is on the
southern edge of the lagoon, and the
village of
Nivano and...
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possibly unsurp****ed
elsewhere in Polynesia. The
islands of
Manihiki and
Rakahanga trace their origins to the
arrival of Toa Nui, a
warrior from the Puaikura...
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Europeans was
Gente Hermosa (beautiful people) by
Spanish explorers to
Rakahanga in 1606. The
islands as a
whole are
named after British Captain James...
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Island Tuvalu,
Tokelau and the
Northern Cook
Islands (Pukapuka, N****au,
Rakahanga, Manihiki, Penrhyn,
Suwarrow and Palmerston)
Western Polynesia Tonga Samoa...
- 1963, a
small boat, Tearoha, set sail from
Manihiki to
Rakahanga for food. On
leaving Rakahanga on 15
August 1963, the boat was
blown off
course in a storm...
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Mangerevan Tahitic languages Austral Māori
Tuamotuan Penrhyn Rarotongan Rakahanga-Manihiki
Tahitian Nuclear Polynesian ****unic
languages Pukapuka Ellicean...
- Quirós made the
first European landing in the
islands when he set foot on
Rakahanga in 1606,
calling it
Gente Hermosa (Beautiful People). Cook
Islanders are...
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Rakahanga is a Cook
Islands electoral division returning one
member to the Cook
Islands Parliament. Its
current representative is
Democrat Piho Rua, who...
