This voyaging resulted in frequent loss of lives and was discontinued at the insistence of missionaries in 1852. Thereafter, the population has been divided between the two islands. Its commander, Captain Patrickson, named it Humphrey Island. The island is rich in oral history and legends. Air Rarotonga flies regularly to Manihiki each Thursday from Rarotonga with a brief stop at Aitutaki .
Flight time is three hours forty minutes.