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the Cook Islands the South Pacific to live not even 20,000 people. Actually, everyone should know everyone, but the small islands of the country are up to four hours flying time apart. The documentary visits three of them and then accompanied by people in their daily lives Pacific Palms: Andrea dream weddings organized for tourists to romantic beaches. Captain Te Aturangi and his crew have recreated a historic canoe with which they sail to their ancestors by the South Sea source. Docjusreloaded

James Cook (born October 27, 1728 in Marton in Middlesbrough, † February 14, 1779 in Kealakekua Bay in Hawaii) was a British sailor and explorer. He became famous with three trips in the Pacific Ocean, where he discovered several islands and other islands surveyed and mapped.

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The Cook Islands were probably in the 9th century discovered by Polynesians of the Society Islands and from Samoa and settled.

The first European contact with the current Cook Islands is dated to the year 1595, when the Spaniard Alvaro de Mendana de Neyra on the northern island of Pukapuka landed. In 1606 the Spaniards landed in Portuguese Pedro Fernández de Quirós on Rakahanga. The British first reached the island of Pukapuka in 1764 and named it Danger Iceland because they failed to go ashore.

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investigated between 1773 and 1779 James Cook the southern islands of the archipelago on several occasions without Rarotonga, the main island, ever see. Captain William Bligh landed with the Bounty 1789 Aitutaki. It was he who brought the breadfruit tree to the Cook Islands. James Cook was the first island Manuae where he landed, the name Hervey Islands . The name of Cook Islands for the whole archipelago was awarded by the German Baltic Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern on his world tour in honor of the expedition and navigator James Cook first appeared in a Russian chart at the beginning of 19. Century.

landed in September / October of 1813 the first European civil servants with the ship Endeavour on the Cook Islands. Then, in 1814, the Cumberland came with dealers via New Zealand and Australia to look sandalwood. They found none on Rarotonga, so that disputes between the sailors and the islanders erupted. Many were killed, among them the European mistress of the captain Ann Butchers . It was eaten, and their remains were buried in Muri. She is so far the only white woman who was killed by cannibals and eaten. The islands were

1888 by the United Kingdom "under protection" and in 1900 annexed . Politically, they are still associated in a free association with New Zealand, which is responsible for it's foreign and defense policy

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