What about the Cook Islands?

The Cook Islands is located in the South Pacific and has close ties with New Zealand. This is also a place rich in natural resources. Here, you can feel the rich South Pacific customs, and you can maximize your thinking and vision. Here, I want to share some specific strategies with you.

Cook Islands is an archipelagic country located in the South Pacific, between French Polynesia and Fiji. It consists of 15 islands, which are distributed on the sea surface of 2 million square kilometers. Its name originated from Captain james cook, who explored the South Pacific during an expedition and found many islands. This is the free association zone of the Kingdom of New Zealand. Avarua, the capital, is located on Rarotonga Island.

Although the land area is small, it covers an area of 240 square kilometers. However, the economic sea area around the Cook Islands is as high as 2 million square kilometers, so the fishery occupies a very high proportion and a very important position in the economy of this region. The prevalence of Polynesian rats in Cook Islands has caused serious harm to birds on the island.

The eight southern islands are mountainous and fertile, rich in vegetables and tropical fruits. There is an airport for Boeing 747 to take off and land on the main island of Rarotonga. The highest altitude on the island is 652 meters, and the Tropical Fruit and Wood Research Institute and the South Pacific University branch are located on the hillside; Avalua, located in six villages on the capital island. There are seven small islands scattered in the north, with relatively poor soil and rich corals.

It has a tropical rainforest climate. The average annual temperature is 24 degrees Celsius. The average annual rainfall is 2000 mm.

Maori are indigenous people who immigrated from Tahiti in the 6th century.

/kloc-in the 6th century, Spanish warships arrived in the Cook Islands. In 595, the Spanish sailor San Bernardo came here for sightseeing and recorded the island for the first time.

In 606, PedroFernandezdeKiros, a Portuguese sailor who worked for the Spanish royal family, landed in La Kahana and named the Cook Islands "GenteHermosa", which means "beautiful man".

1773, the British navigator Captain james cook explored here, and he was named after Cook. It became a British protectorate in 1888.

190 1 became the territory of new Zealand in June. 1964, a referendum was held under the supervision of the United Nations, and the Constitution was adopted.

1On August 4th, 965, the Constitution came into effect, and the library was completely autonomous, enjoying full legislative and administrative power. It maintains free contact with New Zealand, and its defense and diplomacy are assisted by New Zealand.

1989, the new Zealand government sent a letter to the United nations, stating that the cook islands had full constitutional capacity to independently handle foreign relations and sign international agreements, and hoped that the international community would treat the cook islands as a sovereign country. The United Nations recognized its diplomatic independence.

It is a basic natural economy with tourism, agriculture (tropical fruits), fishery, black pearl breeding and offshore finance as its main industries. The micro atolls in the south mainly grow tropical fruits. Coconut cultivation and fishing are the main activities in the northern atolls. Fiscal revenue is heavily dependent on foreign aid. Tourism is the pillar industry of economy and the main channel to solve employment.

Tourism revenue accounts for about 40% of GDP. It accounts for more than half of GDP.

There are small factories that process industrial fruits and produce soap, perfume and tourist T-shirts, as well as workshops that manufacture and process Cook Islands commemorative coins, stamps, shells and tourist handicrafts.

Production of dehydrated coconut, banana, orange, pineapple, coffee, taro, mango and papaya. Raising pigs, goats and poultry. The Cook Islands has a sea area of 2 million square kilometers, is rich in marine resources, and the black pearl aquaculture industry is developing rapidly.

The population of Cook Islands is 13, 100. All hold New Zealand passports.

Maori (Polynesians) account for 92% and European descendants account for 3%.

69% residents believe in Protestantism, 15% people believe in Roman Catholicism.

Common Cook Islands Maori and English.

The defense is assisted by New Zealand, and there is no army. China has 1 10 police. They don't have guns.

4-year-old preschool education and 6-year-old compulsory education-15. There are 39 primary and secondary schools with 5560 students and more than 300 teachers. There is a normal college. Rarotonga University in the South Pacific conducts adult higher education and correspondence teaching. There are 400 people with higher education in China.

Highway: Rarotonga has a highway around the island, and the land transportation is mainly cars and motorcycles.

Shipping: 90% of imports depend on shipping, and the largest port is Awati Wugang, which can berth 3000-ton freighters. Rarotonga Shipping Company and Cook Islands National Shipping Company operate regular freight services between Cook Islands and Niue, New Zealand, Samoa and Tonga. The Cook Islands Waterway Committee and another shipping company are responsible for inter-island transportation.

Air transport: Avalua International Airport on Rarotonga can take off and land Boeing 747 aircraft. Aitaki Island has a domestic airport, while the other seven islands only have airstrips. Rarotonga Airlines operates domestic routes. Air New Zealand, Samoa Polynesian Airlines and Fiji Pacific Airlines have scheduled flights from Rarotonga to Auckland, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Fiji and Samoa.