The Complete Guide to Cook Islands (Video)

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Banaba Island

Banaba Island (also Ocean Island), an island in the Pacific Ocean, is a solitary raised coral island west of the Gilbert Island chain and 300 km east of Nauru.  It is part of More »

Palau – The Republic of Palau

Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, 500 miles (800 km) east of the Philippines and 2,000 miles (3,200 km) south of Tokyo.   In 1978, More »

Fakarava (Island of French Polynesia)

  Located 450km northeast of Tahiti, Fakarava is the 2nd biggest atoll of French Polynesia: 60km long, 21km wide for 16km² of emerged land with a 1121km² lagoon. Some 855 inhabitants of More »

Hawaii

Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states (August 21, 1959), and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in More »

Marquesas Islands

The first recorded settlers of the Marquesas were Polynesians, who, from archæological evidence, are believed to have arrived before 100 AD.Ethnological and linguistic evidence suggests that they likely arrived from the region of Tonga and Samoa. The islands were given their More »

Tuvalu

Tuvaluans are a Polynesian people who settled the islands around 3000 years ago coming from Tonga and Samoa.[5] During pre-European-contact times there was frequent canoe voyaging between the nearer islands. Eight of the More »

Islands of Wallis and Futuna

Wallis and Futuna is located about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand, at 13°18′S 176°12′WCoordinates: 13°18′S 176°12′W, (225 mi west of Samoa and 300 mi (480 km) north-east of Fiji). The territory includes the island of More »

Tahiti

Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia. The island was formed from volcanic activity More »

Tokelau

The name Tokelau is a Polynesian word meaning “North Wind”. The islands were named the Union Islands and Union Group by European explorers at an unknown time. Tokelau Islands was adopted as the name in 1946, and was contracted to Tokelau on 9 December More »

Easter Island

Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is More »

New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa in Māori) is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and theSouth Island) and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some 1,500 kilometres (900 mi) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly More »

Tonga, The Friendly Islands

Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) of ocean in the South Pacific. Fifty-two of the More »

Cook Islands

The Cook Islands were first settled in the 6th century CE by Polynesian people who migrated from nearby Tahiti, to the southeast.  Spanish ships visited the islands in the 16th century; the first written record of contact with More »

Samoa

Samoa is located south of the equator, about halfway between Hawai‘i and New Zealand in the Polynesian region of the Pacific Ocean. The total land area is 2,934 km² (1,133 sq mi) (slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Rhode More »

Ray Sefo (Samoan Fighter) @SugarRaySefo

Ray Sefo (Samoan Fighter)

Personal Life: Ray Sefo (ring name: “Sugar” or “Sugar Foot” born February 15, 1971, Auckland, New Zealand) is the President of The World Series of Fighting (WSOF) and a former New Zealand Kickboxer, Boxer and Mixed Martial Artist (MMA). Sefo was trained

James Aiona (Hawaiian Politician)

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James Aiona (Hawaiian Politician) James R. “Duke” Aiona, Jr. (born June 8, 1955) is an American politician who served as the tenth Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii from 2002 to 2010. He is of Hawaiian, Chinese, and Portuguese descent. Prior to his election to the office in 2002,

Mosiula Mea’alofa “Lofa” Tatupu (NFL Player) @LofaTatupu

Mosiula Mea'alofa "Lofa" Tatupu (NFL Player) @LofaTatupu

Mosiula Mea’alofa “Lofa” Tatupu (born November 15, 1982) is an American football linebacker who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the second round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football for Southern California. Seattle Seahawks Tatupu quickly established himself as one of

Samoa Has My HEART by @AmbitionzWriter

LOVE FOR SAMOA CAN DRIVE

Its a beautiful day here in Auckland, heat is rising, sun is blazing, people are busy shopping in malls for Secret Santa gifts, children are cleaning up their classrooms ready to hail in the end of the school year. I

Lessons learned from Nana…. by @Teinetoa4lyphe

Lessons learned from Nana…. by @Teinetoa4lyphe

Prayer of safety from my Nana: Tama, ia ave ese peau o le ea, peau o le sami, ae faalaolaoina le ea mo le fegasoloai o fanau i faalavelave.   Translation: God, I implore you to remove the mighty winds,

Katalina Muti Malungahu- MMA Fighter @KatalinaMMA

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MMA fighter Katalina Malungahu burst on the professional scene last year with one goal in mind: to take the 145-pound championship belt in Strikeforce. A knockout-artist who loves to strike, she has thrown punches in her brief career that have

Tahiti National Rugby Union Team

Tahiti National Rugby Union Team

The Tahiti national rugby union team is a third tier rugby union team, representing the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivityof France. They first played in 1971 and have played just 12 games to date, four against the Cook Islands and three against Niue. Other games have been played against Samoa, Wallis and

Tarita Teriipia (French Polynesian Actress)

Tarita Teriipia (French Polynesian Actress)

Tarita Teriipia (born December 29, 1941 in Bora Bora, French Polynesia) is a former actress of French Polynesian and Chinese descent most famous for being the wife of Marlon Brando. She was usually billed as Tarita. Biography She played Maimiti opposite Marlon Brando in the film Mutiny on the Bounty (1962),

Colors of the Rainbow…. by @Teinetoa4lyphe

Lessons learned from Nana…. by @Teinetoa4lyphe

What’s in a name? Ask YOURSELF! Why do you name yourself that? EVEN your nickname. Question posted by BellaLu @bellalumai who also blogs and I will attempt to answer it for myself.  My dad always told us as kids that no one

The islands are calling me home… by @Teinetoa4lyphe

Lessons learned from Nana…. by @Teinetoa4lyphe

“E ui ina tagi ta’amilo i le Pasefika se manu lagi, e utu lava lana tagi i lona falemau’u i lona atunu’u moni” – Samoan Proverb “While the heavenly bird cries as it travels the Pacific vastness, it ceases to

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