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Rakahanga as seen from the Space Shuttle
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visit the NASA site below for More Cook Islands
http://nix.nasa.gov
RAKAHANGA = Hararanga - is a rectangular atoll with a three by one and a half mile wide lagoon having encircling landforms lying near the reef. The settlement, Matara, is near the southwest opening in the reef, which is only large enough for small ships and ocean going yachts. There is a wharf where yachties can tie up and about 40 houses in the settlement on the southern motu. The airstrip lies on the western motu, but is infrequently used as Manihiki is only 25 miles away. Most visitors come by boat.
Economy comes from the sale of copra, the fiber of dried coconut. In addition to the coconut trees, breadfruit are also in great quantity as well as a coarse tuber called puraka used as a vegetable in the local diet. |
Meitaki Korereka
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Rakahonga Lagoon 2006
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On September 20, 1979, representatives of the United States and Kiribati met in Tarawa Atoll in the northern district of the Gilbert Islands. There they signed a treaty of friendship on behalf of their two nations, an agreement which many refer to as the Treaty of Tarawa of 1979. Under that treaty the United States recognized Kiribati's sovereignty over these fourteen islands. This treaty entered into force on September 23, 1983.
(2) The status of the United States' claim to certain atolls in the northern
Cook Islands, Danger (Pukapuka), Manahiki, Penrhyn and Rakahanga:
On June 11, 1980, the United States and the Cook Islands signed in Rarotonga a treaty of friendship to delimit maritime boundaries. By the terms of this treaty the United States renounced its claim to these four atolls and acknowledged the sovereignty of the Cook Islands over them. This treaty entered into force on September 8, 1983.
Since August 4, 1965, the Cook Islands have been a state in free association with New Zealand. This relationship resembles very closely that which the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia have enjoyed with the United States since October 21, 1986, and November 3, 1986, respectively. |
visit the United States Department of the Interior
site below for more info
http://www.doi.gov
Kingfisher
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The Mangaia and Atiu kingfishers are both sub species of the Pacific Kingfisher and can be found on many islands in the South East Pacific: Society, Cook and Gambier Islands.
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More info about Cook Islands Birds
see BOOKs pages
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