Mangaia (traditionally known as A'ua'u Enua, which means terraced) is the most southerly of the Cook Islands and the second largest, after Rarotonga....
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89583°S 157.90667°W / -21.89583; -157.90667 Mangaia Airport (IATA: MGS, ICAO: NCMG) is an airport on Mangaia in the Cook Islands. It lies 45 feet (14 m)...
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food, and firewood. Their favourite islands were Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mangaia and Penrhyn. The Cook Islands became aligned to the United Kingdom in 1890...
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The Mangaia swiftlet (Aerodramus manuoi) is an extinct species of bird in the swift family. It became extinct during prehistoric times. It was endemic...
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The Mangaia rail (Gallirallus ripleyi) is an extinct species of flightless bird in the rail family, Rallidae. The rail was described in 1986 from subfossil...
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The Mangaia crake ("Porzana" rua) is an extinct species of flightless bird in the rail family, Rallidae. It was described in 1986 from subfossil bones...
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Public holidays in the Cook Islands (redirect from Mangaia Gospel Day)
Gospel Day 25 May Palmerston Island Palmerston Gospel Day 15 June Mangaia Mangaia Gospel Day 20 July Atiu Atiu Gospel Day 21 July Mitiaro Mitiaro Gospel...
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Mewing kingfisher (redirect from Mangaia Kingfisher)
The mewing kingfisher or Mangaia kingfisher (Todiramphus ruficollaris), known locally as the tanga‘eo, is a species of bird in the Alcedinidae, or kingfisher...
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Rongo (category Mangaia mythology)
agriculture and god of war in the southern Cook Islands, especially on Mangaia where the Akaoro marae and Orongo marae were centres of his worship; where...
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Rapa language (redirect from Mangaia-Old Rapa language)
language of Rapa Iti, in the Austral Islands of French Polynesia, and of Mangaia in the Cook Islands. It is an Eastern Polynesian language. There are three...
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Hina (goddess) (section Mangaia)
Hina is the name assigned to a number of Polynesian deities. The name Hina usually relates to a powerful female force (typically a goddess or queen) who...
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southern Taranaki, New Zealand Tongatea, wife of Ngaru in the mythology of Mangaia of the Cook Islands Manu-Tongātea This disambiguation page lists articles...
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Makatea, or Mangaia-te-vai-tamae, is a raised coral atoll in the northwestern part of the Tuamotus, which is a part of the French overseas collectivity...
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in June 2006, triggering fuel and electricity crises on the island of Mangaia. The tribes were named after the islands of the Cook Islands: Manihiki...
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Motoro (category Mangaia mythology)
god of the Ngariki of Mangaia. He is the son of Tangiia and the brother of Ruanuku, Kereteki and Utakea. While travelling to Mangaia he argued with his two...
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moist forests and the Cook Islands tropical moist forests. Aitutaki Atiu Mangaia Manuae Mauke Mitiaro Palmerston Island Rarotonga (capital) Takutea Manihiki...
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Aitutaki Airport Atiu Cook Islands AIU NCAT Enua Airport Mangaia Cook Islands MGS NCMG Mangaia Airport Manihiki Cook Islands MHX NCMH Manihiki Island...
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Geology of the Cook Islands (section Mangaia)
reefs is characterised in several cases consistent with sealevel fall at Mangaia, of at least 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) in the last 3400 years. The northern Suwarrow...
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Giant swamphen, Porphyrio sp. (New Ireland, Melanesia) Mangaia swamphen, Porphyrio sp. (Mangaia, Cook Islands) (not to genus Pareudiastes) New Ireland...
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Numangatini Tione Ariki (redirect from King John of Mangaia)
was ariki (king) of the Numangatini dynasty, a chiefdom on the island of Mangaia. Tione (also known as John) was a son of Numangatini Ariki. Before Missionaries...
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Ngaru (category Mangaia mythology)
Ngaru is a mythological hero from Avaiki (Hawaiki) in the mythology of Mangaia in the Cook Islands. Ngaru's mother was Vaiare and his grandfather the...
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Islands," but there is no land between the southernmost Cook Islands of Mangaia and Antarctica. The film begins and ends in the same location, on the Arrington...
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century recounting the legends about ʻAvaiki as the underworld or Hades of Mangaia in the Cook Islands. Gill (1876:155) records a proverb: Ua po Avaiki, ua...
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Karanga may refer to: Karanga (district), Mangaia, Cook Islands Karanga (Māori culture), an element of Māori cultural protocol...
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bird, turtle, and fish remains caused by increased predation pressure. On Mangaia in the Cook Islands, human colonisation was associated with a major extinction...
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Islands, the Gilbert Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Tonga, Marquesas, Mangaia in the Cook Islands, Rapa Iti in French Polynesia, Easter Island, the Chatham...
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English rock band Moko (mythology), the king of lizards in the mythology of Mangaia in the Cook Islands Tomb of the Lizard King, a 1982 Dungeons & Dragons...
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specimen of it exists today, apart from some contemporary paintings. From Mangaia in the Cook Islands, Ua Huka in the Marquesas, and the remote South Pacific...
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have no obligation to help each other in any way..." The aborigines of Mangaia island of Polynesia, who mastered the English language, used the word "love"...
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