Cook Islands

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Cook Islands

An island group of the southern Pacific Ocean east of Samoa. Inhabited by Polynesians who arrived around 1,500 years ago, the islands are named for Capt. James Cook, who visited them in 1773. They are now self-governing under the sovereignty of New Zealand.

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Cook Islands

pl n

(Placename) a group of islands in the SW Pacific, an overseas territory of New Zealand: consists of the Lower Cooks and the Northern Cooks Capital: Avarua, on Rarotonga. Pop: 10 447 (2013 est). Area: 234 sq km (90 sq miles)

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Cook′ Is′lands

n.pl.

a group of islands in the S Pacific belonging to New Zealand. 21,317; 99 sq. mi. (256 sq. km).

Translations

Cookovy ostrovy

Cookinseln

Islas Cook

Cookinsaaret

îles Cook

Cook-szigetek

Wyspy Cooka

Cooköarna

Cook Adaları

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Prior to the arrival of the Missionaries in 1821, the Cook Islands had no written language.

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In the Cook Islands case, money finance of the government's budget deficits, aided by reduced reserve backing for the Cook Islands dollar, allowed fiscal retrenchment to be delayed in the early 1990s.

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It also indicated that publishing in French Polynesia was more active than other areas of the Pacific, including the Cook Islands. However, as a whole the Library's holdings were not vastly different from those of the Library of Congress or other Australian libraries.