The Cook Islands lie halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii and are made up of 15 islands and atolls spread over 700 square ...

The Cook Islands was within the New Zealand borders from 1901. In 1965, it became self governing but in free association with New Zealand. It is a realm country of New Zealand, along with Niue and ...

Cook Islanders have New Zealand citizenship and passports. They have the same rights as a New Zealander such as the ability to work, go to school and use the medical system. There is no Cook ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a ...

The legal recognition also acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori after New Zealand was colonized by England. In 1770, Capt. James Cook spotted the peak from his ship and named it Mount ...

Cook Islands ... with China, and New Zealand has no real right to intervene”, said Graeme Smith, senior fellow at the Department of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs.

But colonizers of New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries took first the name of Taranaki and then the mountain itself. In 1770, the British explorer Captain James Cook spotted the peak from ...