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The Cook Islands have been an active member of the Pacific Community since 1980. The Cook Islands' main population centres are on the island of Rarotonga (10,863 in 2021). [4] The Rarotonga International Airport, the main international gateway to the country, is located on this island. The census of 2021 put the total population at 14,987.
This page lists the individual Cook Islands year pages. It only references years after 1965, when it was granted self government by New Zealand. Twenty-first century
Performing groups include the Cook Islands National Arts Theatre, Arorangi Dance Troupe, Betela Dance Troupe, Akirata Folk Dance Troupe, and Te Ivi Maori Cultural Dance Troupe. [20] Raro Records is the main specialist in music retail on the islands. Cook Islands dancers at Auckland's Pasifika Festival.
The Cook Islands are named after Captain James Cook, who visited the islands in 1773 and 1777, although Spanish navigator Alvaro de Mendaña was the first European to reach the islands in 1595. [1] The Cook Islands became aligned to the United Kingdom in 1890, largely because of the fear of British residents that France might occupy the islands ...
The indigenous Polynesian people of the Cook Islands are known as Cook Islands Māori. These include speakers of Cook Islands Māori language, closely related to Tahitian and New Zealand Māori, who form the majority of the population and inhabit the southern islands including Rarotonga; [7] and also the people of Pukapuka, who speak a language more closely related to Samoan. [8]
The Cook Islands is a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand, which is responsible for assisting with the Cook Island's requests for assistance in the areas of foreign affairs, defence and natural disasters. Under this arrangement, the Cook Islands has its own international legal personality and conducts its own international ...
The Arago hotspot which has a northern track through the Cook Islands area is the younger, in this area of the Pacific, of the two definite volcanic hot spots that contributed to the formation of most of the southern Cook Islands. [3] The Arago hotspot Cook Islands are: Palmerston; Aitutaki (9·39 Ma) [3] Atiu (7.44 to 7·20 Ma) [3] Manaue ...
The Cook Islands Christian Church is a Reformed Protestant Church, which has been very successful in the islands and today accounts for almost half of Cook Islanders. Other Christian denominations including Catholicism, Mormonism, Adventism and Pentecostalism have had some success in the Cook Islands as well.