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Cook Islands History and Culture




History
The islands were named in honour of Captain James Cook, who in 1733 became the first European to sight them. However, credit for the first discovery of these islands must go to the Polynesians who discovered them during their great migratory journeys of the 7th and 8th centuries.
The main island, Rarotonga, was rediscovered by the Bounty Mutineers in 1789. In 1888 they became a British protectorate, and in 1901 became part of New Zealand. In 1965 the islands achieved self-government as a New Zealand Dependency.

There are no plans and little pressure from anywhere for any change to this status.
Domestic politics are dominated by the Cook Islands Party which, at the most recent poll held in March 1994, took 20 of the 25 assembly seats; the remainder were shared between the islands' two small opposition parties, the Democratic Party and the Alliance party. Geoffrey Henry, who had also won the previous election in 1989, assumed the premiership for another five-year term.


 

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