[DOC] [TLE] Cook Islands - Wikipedia [PAR] The Cook Islands is a self-governing island country in the South Pacific Ocean in 
free ... The Cook Islands were first settled in the 6th century by Polynesian people 
who ... Pedro Fernandes de Queirs, a Portuguese captain working for the 
Spanish .... The languages of the Cook Islands include English, Cook Islands 
Mori,... [DOC] [TLE] Cook Islands - World Atlas [PAR] These easy-on-the-eyes islands, fifteen in all, were named after Captain Cook, ... 
Name: Cook Islands, a free association territory of New Zealand, claimed in 1901
; Capital City: Avarua (13,595 pop.) ... English (official) 86.4%, Cook Islands 
Maori (Rarotongan) (official) 76.2%, other ... Rarotonga, Cook Islands, South 
Pacific... [DOC] [TLE] Cook Islands travel guide - Wikitravel [PAR] Capital, Avarua ... Language, English & Cook Islands Mori (official) ... of the 
South Pacific Ocean, between French Polynesia (Society Islands) to the east ... 
Named after Captain Cook, who sighted them in 1770, the islands became a 
British ... These are Rarotonga, Aitutaki and Atiu in the Southern group, and 
Penrhyn and... [DOC] [TLE] Cook Islands, cook islands vacation, Aitutaki cook islands, cook ... [PAR] Aitutaki is known as the lagoon of the South Pacific and a Cook Islands vacation 
is not ... (which began about 1500BC), that our ancestors first arrived in these 
islands. ... When the early explorers arrived on Rarotonga, they were staggered 
to find the ... Captain James Cook, for whom the island group was eventually 
named,... [DOC] [TLE] pacific island migration & loss of traditional knowledge - Unesco [PAR] Main Town: Avarua ... Languages: Cook Is Maori & English ... They made a final 
landfall at Rarotonga Island, coming ashore at Avana, ... Sometimes they used 
place names for landforms that ... these geneologies, the haft of spears that were 
handed down as ... (themselves sons of a wandering Irish sea captain) to work 
their. [DOC] [TLE] Culture of Cook Islands - history, people, clothing, traditions, women ... [PAR] The country is named after Captain James Cook, who landed there in 1773. ... 
islands a protectorate to counter the French, who were increasing their colonial 
holdings in the South Pacific. ... The capital, Avarua, is the largest city but is more 
like a small town. ... Few of these structures remain, mostly on the northern 
islands. [DOC] [TLE] Arts and culture - Guampedia [PAR] Dec 16, 2015 ... It is the third largest Pacific island nation behind Papua New Guinea and ... The 
first European to see New Caledonia was British Captain James ... French and 
English Political Status: Independent Capital: Port Vila .... Capital: Honiara ..... 
These early Austronesian peoples were part of the Lapita cultural... [DOC] [TLE] Landscapes of Mallorca - Thomas H. Booth, Valerie Crespi-Green ... [PAR] Aug 29, 2014 ... The Cook Islands, named after the British Captain who seems to have been ... 
Even Avarua, the port, capital, and mecca to these 15 islands, ... and the people 
who speak English with a New Zealand accent are ... in looking back, the first 
missionaries to arrive in the Cooks were not known for unbridled humor. [DOC] [TLE] BBC - Travel - A tale of the South Pacific [PAR] Jul 12, 2011 ... The view from the flight to Aitutaki, one of the remote Cook Islands. ... Scores of 
the most remote tropical paradises on the planet were found and ... It is a warm, 
tropical afternoon at the harbour in Avarua, Rarotonga's main town, with .... 
Captain Cook, after whom the archipelago is named, discovered many... [DOC] [TLE] Wavescan - On The Shortwaves [PAR] Apr 24, 2016 ... The Pacific Island nation known as the Cook Islands is made up of 15 ... no more 
than seven miles across, with Avarua as its capital and largest town. ... The first 
inhabitants in the Cook Islands were Polynesian peoples from ... The famous 
English explorer Captain James Cook named this

Question: Avarua is the capital of these Pacific islands, which were named for an English captain
Answer: the Cook Islands