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Definition of Cook Islands in English: Cook Islandsproper noun A group of fifteen islands in the south-western Pacific Ocean between Tonga and French Polynesia, which have the status of a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand; population 19,000 (estimated 2015); languages, English (official), Rarotongan (a Polynesian language); capital, Avarua, on Rarotonga.
Origin Named after Captain James Cook (see Cook, Captain James), who visited them in 1773. Definition of Cook Islands in US English: Cook Islandsproper noun A group of fifteen islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean between Tonga and French Polynesia, which have the status of a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand; population 19,000 (estimated 2015); languages, English (official), Rarotongan (a Polynesian language); capital, Avarua, on Rarotonga.
Origin Named after Captain James Cook (see Cook, Captain James), who visited them in 1773. |