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NORTHERN GROUP ISLANDS
Manihiki  Island of pearls
Nassau  A remote Garden of Eden
Penrhyn  Floating in space
Pukapuka  Island of beautiful girls
Rakahanga  The undiscovered country
Suwarrow  A real treasure island
THE GROUPS
About the Southern Group
About the Northern Group
SOUTHERN GROUP ISLANDS
Rarotonga  The capital island
Aitutaki  Your own blue lagoon
Atiu  Land of the birds
Manuae  Uninhabited
Mangaia  Oldest island in the Pacific
Mauke  Garden of the Islands
Mitiaro  Face of the ocean
Palmerston  An English legacy
Takutea  Uninhabited
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How to get to the Cook Islands
A quick tour of the Cook Islands
Guided tour of Aitutaki
2 Jun: Queen's Birthday - public holiday
15 Jun: Mangaia Gospel Day
2008 calendar    More about Gospel Days
New domestic airline prepares to take off
China ultimatum over NZ$13m loan
Total smoking ban planned for June
Manihiki gets broadband internet
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Where on earth are the Cook Islands?
William Marsters
Maukeans
The unique Divided Church
Banyan tree
MAUKE is the garden of the Islands.  It also boasts the world's largeest banyan tree and a rainbow coloured church which was once literally divided in two after  a row between the two villages who built it.
Explore Mauke
A magnificent rito hat
Tivaivai bed cover
Love, patience and skills handed down through generations go into producing some of the unique crafts of the Islands.
Art from the heart
Following worldwide publicity prompted by the author of this website, the true story of William Marsters - the Englishman who founded a dynasty on remote Palmerston - can be told for the first time. 
MY COOK ISLANDS
The Cook Islands is an ideal place to live in this world of war and strife...because there is peace and love everywhere
Writings of a young islander