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Rarotonga

an island in the S Pacific, in the SW Cook Islands: the chief island of the group. Chief settlement: Avarua. Pop.: 12 188 (2001). Area: 67 sq. km (26 sq. miles)
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Pascht demonstrates how the future role of chiefs in Rarotonga (Cook Islands) is shaped by a dynamic tension between the different projects and interests pursued by titleholders and non-chiefly Rarotongans while Schieder explores how a 'coup culture' has developed in Fiji as a defined group of elites deliberately create instability for their own political ends.
Finally, we added nine new stations (i.e., Nauru, Honiara, Funafuti, Penrhyn, Kanton, Christmas, Rarotonga, Papeete, and Rikitea) (Fig.
'PacINET 2014' was held at Rarotonga, the capital city of the Cook Islands, and was attended by technical experts, industry representatives, government employees, civil society and academics, among others.
Another highlight and rarity is the head of a staff god from Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, acquired by a member of the London Missionary Society in 1820 and subsequently in the celebrated collection of James Hooper (and the British Rail Pension Fund).
Air New Zealand has operations from Los Angeles to Auckland, London-Heathrow and Rarotonga. Air New Zealand operates an average of five flights a day from Melbourne to Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington, as well as a seasonal service to Queenstown.
This holiday includes a five-night stay at the three-star Tamanu Beach Hotel in Aitutaki followed by three nights' at the three-star Moana Sands Beachfront Hotel in Rarotonga, both COOK ISLANDS AUSTRAVEL (0800 988 4834, www.austravel.com) is offering a nine-day Cook Islands holiday with prices from PS2,349 per person and savings of PS300 per couple.
Air New Zealand hopes the video will encourage passengers to travel to Rarotonga, as well as emphasize core safety messages.
In between, chapters provide verbal snapshots, through the eyes of the 'unsung envoys', of New Zealand's posts in Moscow, Washington, Apia, Saigon, Delhi, Tokyo, Ottawa, Santiago, Paris, Nuku'alofa, Port Moresby, Tehran, Rarotonga, Suva, Baghdad, and (again) London.
Professor Don Rothwell, an international law expert based at the Australian National University, has provided legal advice demonstrating that if the current sale plan proceeds Australia would be in violation of its Treaty of Rarotonga obligations.
Inspired by the sense of possibility created on that September morning, Ulamila Kurai Wragg of Rarotonga, Cook islands, Ursula Rakova from the Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea, Constance Okollet of Uganda, and Sharon Hanshaw of Biloxi, Mississippi set out to take their stories around the globe.
Later, the instrument was purchased by Frank Bateson, who after World War II took it with him to live on Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands.
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