Manihiki
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Islet Manihiki is an islet in the Cook Islands group in the far North. Informal name of the islet is " Isle of Pearls ". Situated about 1,299 kilometers from the main Rarotonga archipelago, it is one of the most isolated settlements in the Pacific. It is thought that the name of Manuhiki was originally derived from the Aborigines who discovered Manu from the words Rua Manu (a kind of canoe) and Hiki, which means onshore.
Secondly, the originators came from Manihi, an Tuamotus based islet, so the name of the islet would mean Little Manihi. The Manihiki is an approximately triangle-like body of corals made up of about 43 islands (motu) that surround a shallow nine kilometre long Laguna that is almost entirely surrounded by the nearby one.
Its population is split between the two major islands Tauhunu on the western shore (where the US authorities are based) and Tukao in the northern part (where Manihiki Island Airport is located). The Polynesians are said to have been living in Manihiki since at least 900 or 1000 AD. Kupe came from Manihiki, also known as Fakahotu Nui or Niiva Nui.
The name of his kayak is Tukao Village, known as Te Matafourua. But the only nourishment on the islands back then was coconuts. As a result, the residents travelled by ferry between Manihiki and the near Rakahanga River to get ashore. Pedro Ferandes de Queiros is thought to have first seen the isle in 1606 and to call it Gente Hermosa (Beautiful People).
But on October 13, 1822, when it was seen by the US vessel Good Hope, it was called Humphrey Iceland by Captain Patrickson. The whaling vessel Ganges discovered the Isle in 1928 and called it Great Ganges Iceland, as other whaling vessels called it Liderous, Gland, Sarah Scott and Pescado.
In spite of frequent changes of name by discoverers, the name of the archipelago remains the same. By 1889, a section of the people rejected the Missionary and signed an accord with the Tahitian based colonies to annihilate the entire area. As an answer, a vessel was sent, but the Manihiki misionaries raised the English banner and ordered the vessel to retreat without deploying a disembarkation force.
A small Tearoha in August 1963 put the sails from Manihiki to Rakahanga for dinner. Disembarking from Rakahanga on August 15, 1963, the vessel was diverted from course in a gale and finally returned to shore in Erromango, Vanuatu, on October 17, 1963. Manihiki's industry is ruled by the growing of dark beads and there are bead farming in the area.
In the administrative offices, the visitor can obtain a permission either from the secretary of the archipelago or from the mayor or the deputy mayor. Rarotonga's air travel times to the Rarotonga are about three and a half hour, and there is a Rarotonga service every Thursday; however, sometimes Manihiki is canceled due to a shortage of passenger or gas.
Source: "Ethnology of Manihiki and Rakahanga". There are two different language versions available on the island: Rakahanga-Manihiki and English. a ^ a d e d The Government of Iceland (20 June 2007). Archiveed from the orginal on August 1, 2010. "Insight into a historic data base on the effects of hurricanes in the tropics on the Cooks."
Climate Update. "Historic tropical cyclone activity and impact on the Cook Islands". Government of the Cook Islands. Archiveed from the orginal on August 1, 2010. "of the Northern Cooks have been pronounced dead." from the Pacific Islands. Archives from the orginal on November 22, 2015. Manihiki in the cooks faces the demographic decline when the economies weaken.