This is the second part of a two part guide to the whole of the Cook Islands, a nation of 15 tiny islands spread across an area of the South Pacific Ocean the size of India.
Part one covered ei...
This is the second part of a two part guide to the whole of the Cook Islands, a nation of 15 tiny islands spread across an area of the South Pacific Ocean the size of India.
Part one covered eight of the nine islands in the Southern group. Part two takes you on a tour of the remaining seven, starting with Palmerston which is entirely populated by the descendants of one Englishman and his four Polynesian wives. The other six islands in this film comprise the Northern group and have been described by some as as the stuff of dreams. They include Suwarrow - population 2 - where, to this day, there is undiscovered buried treasure, and Pukapuka where islanders speak their own unique language.
And even if you can't visit the islands in person, hopefully this guide will give you an idea of why they're so special.
You can find out more about all the Islands at http://www.cookislands.org.uk - the only independent, non-commercial guide on the net to all of the Cook Islands.
Acknowledgements: Footage of Palmerston is used with the kind permisison of Patricia Larkham. Aerial stills are courtesy of Ewan Smith, Managing Director of Air Rarotonga, and other additional stills are courtesy of Marcus Glenig of Summerfield Systems, Rarotonga. Underwater footage off Suwarrow was shot by Dr. Graham Wragg (Captain G of the Research Vessel "Bounty Bay".
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i hope westerners dont come there and fuck it all up like they did with hawaii. i hope it stays true to the culture and what cook island is all about. cause when i live there secretly on one of the islands, dont want anyone knowing that im there. and i dont want to see planes flying over my treehouse either.
OH shit! that one dude go to live there for 15 years!!! im going to do that too, persuade the government to let me live on an island all by myself! since i was 12 thats all i want to do. if they dont let me, im just going to do it, find an island that no lives on and build a treehouse! MY DREAMS ARE COMING SOON!! i went to google earth and i scattered the islands, IM REALLY GOING TO DO THIS. if anyone reads this, one day if you visit, will see a guy on an island with a treehouse, its me!
Thank you so much for posting this clip on the Northern Cooks. I had the pleasure of visiting Mangalongalo (Penrhyn), Manihiki and Rakahanga a few years ago. I loved them! This clip brought back beautiful memories!
It's a quote from Englishman, William Dashwood who lived on the remote Northern group island of Rakahanga in the 1930s. Writing in 1964 under the nom-de-plume, Julian Hillas he said: If there are places left where a man can grow old contentedly, it is on some such quiet, drowsy atoll, where today is forever and tomorrow never comes; where men live and die, feast and sorrow, while the winds and the waves play over wet sands and gleaming reefs.' Who said YoutTube isn't educational.
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Thank you so much for posting this clip on the Northern Cooks. I had the pleasure of visiting Mangalongalo (Penrhyn), Manihiki and Rakahanga a few years ago. I loved them! This clip brought back beautiful memories!