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...

Rakahanga-Manihiki is a Tahitic language belonging to the Polynesian language family, spoken by about 2500 people on Rakahanga and Manihiki Islands (part...

Rakahanga is a Cook Islands electoral division returning one member to the Cook Islands Parliament. Its current representative is Democrat Piho Rua, who...

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...

possibly unsurpassed elsewhere in Polynesia. The islands of Manihiki and Rakahanga trace their origins to the arrival of Toa Nui, a warrior from the Puaikura...

Europeans was Gente Hermosa (beautiful people) by Spanish explorers to Rakahanga in 1606. The islands as a whole are named after British Captain James...

Mangerevan Tahitic languages Austral Māori Tuamotuan Penrhyn Rarotongan Rakahanga-Manihiki Tahitian Nuclear Polynesian Futunic languages Pukapuka Ellicean...

Island Tuvalu, Tokelau and the Northern Cook Islands (Pukapuka, Nassau, 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...

Rarotonga, 9 degrees south of the equator. Its nearest neighbours are Rakahanga and Manihiki, approximately 350 kilometres (220 mi) to the southwest....

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...

French Polynesia) Rarotongan (Cook Islands Māori, Cook Islands) Rakahanga-Manihiki (Rakahanga and Manihiki, Northern Cook Islands) Penrhyn (or Tongarevan;...

Māori, Austronesian → Polynesian → Penrhyn, Austronesian → Polynesian → Rakahanga-Manihiki, Austronesian → Polynesian → Pukapukan Cook Islands Christianity...

chain consists of the atolls of Manihiki, Nassau, Penrhyn, Pukapuka, Rakahanga and Suwarrow, along with the submerged Tema Reef. The chain forms a roughly...

stand for the fifteen islands that make up the Cook Islands (Tongareva, Rakahanga, Manihiki, Pukapuka, Nassau, Suwarrow, Palmerston, Aitutaki, Manuae, Takutea...

Marquesan Mangarevan Tahitian Austral Rapa Tuamotuan Cook Islands Māori Rakahanga-Manihiki Tongareva Māori Moriori † Rapa Nui Futunic Wallisian (East Uvean)...

Island Rarotonga (capital) Takutea Manihiki Nassau Penrhyn atoll Pukapuka Rakahanga Suwarrow Note: The table is ordered from north to south. Population figures...

Mauke Mitiaro Nassau Palmerston Island Penrhyn Island/Tongareva Pukapuka Rakahanga Rarotonga Suwarrow Takutea Niue Tokelau Atafu Nukunonu Fakaofo New Zealand...

two high chiefs on Manihiki also traditionally reign over neighbouring Rakahanga. They represent the populace of both islands in the area Ariki. The title...

Pacific islands. It is known in Mangareva as kivi or kivikivi and in Rakahanga as kihi; it is said to be the origin of the name for the New Zealand flightless...

Tongareva (Penrhyn) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Rakahanga-Manihiki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) "2013...

to Atiu, Mitiaro, Mauke and Mangaia, once every two months to Penrhyn, Rakahanga and Manihiki, and once every two and a half months to Palmerston and Pukapuka...

written with a macron. [f] is present in loanwords from languages like Rakahanga-Manihiki and Tahitian. Tongareva is one of the few Cook Islands languages...

Marquesan Mangarevan Tahitian Austral Rapa Tuamotuan Cook Islands Māori Rakahanga-Manihiki Tongareva Māori Moriori † Rapa Nui Futunic Wallisian (East Uvean)...

already crowded, with Sterndale and the Islanders being delivered to Rakahanga (Reirson island), from where they eventually were able to travel to Tahiti...

Marquesan Mangarevan Tahitian Austral Rapa Tuamotuan Cook Islands Māori Rakahanga-Manihiki Tongareva Māori Moriori † Rapa Nui Futunic Wallisian (East Uvean)...

(Houtman Abrolhos), an island in the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia Rakahanga, formerly called Alexander Island in the Cook Islands Alexander Island...

cyclone season. A shallow area of low-pressure began to develop near Rakahanga, an island in the Cook Island chain. The storm had also formed on the...

precursor tropical depression impacted the atolls of Pukapuka, Manihiki and Rakahanga, within the Northern Cook Islands between October 31 - November 2. The...

459 (2016) Languages English (86.4%) Cook Islands Māori (76.2%) Penrhyn Rakahanga-Manihiki Pukapukan Related ethnic groups Polynesians Māori Tahitians...