Cook Islands

PHOTOS: World's Most Remote Islands

BootsnAll | Posted 01.20.2012

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There are few places left in the world that are truly undiscovered, but if you're willing to venture far, far off the beaten path, you can find a few that still seem remote.

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15,000 Mile Voyage on a Canoe to SF With a Powerful Message

Teresa Rodriguez Williamson | Posted 10.11.2011

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The Cook Islands' vaka (canoe) set sail from New Zealand in April alongside several other vakas representing other Polynesian nations. The journey was...

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WikiLeaks: New Zealand Sells Itself as "a more Pacific country" than Australia - And As Key to Pacific Security. US Buys It.

Cleo Paskal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Australia, United Nations, Caroline Forsyth, Cleo Paskal, Wikileaks, World News, Chatham House, Helen Clark, Julian Assange, Cook Islands, Alexander Downer, Randall Fort, Warren Tucker, United States, Wellington, Hilary Clinton, Ramsi, Tonga, New Zealand, Pacific, John Key, Geopolitics, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Five Eyes, North Korea, World News
Cleo Paskal

New WikiLeaks cables clearly indicates the U.S.'s increasingly close relationship with New Zealand -- as well as its increasing reliance on New Zealand when it comes to Pacific security issues.

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Why the West Is Losing the Pacific to China, the Arab League, and Just About Everyone Else

Cleo Paskal | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cleo Paskal

Nuku'alofa, Kingdom of Tonga. The small South Pacific country of the Kingdom of Tonga has been busy. In a two-week period around the start of Septembe...

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The Danger of a Single Story

Yazmany Arboleda | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yazmany Arboleda

The outcome of a single story can be that it flattens our understanding of art and of each other in a now globalized world.

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Cook Islands Stakes Claim With UN To More Undersea Resources

Commonwealth Secretariat | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Energy, Un, Cook Islands, Cook Islands Energy, Offshore Drilling, Green News

The Cook Islands has lodged a submission with the United Nations to secure access to additional areas of seabed for the benefit of present and future ...

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