Southern Cook Islands
The Southern Cook Islands are a loose group of mostly volcanic, hilly islands and a few coral atolls. It is home to most of the islands' population, and to its capital and largest town, Avarua.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Rarotonga and Aitutaki.
Rarotonga
Destinations to Discover
Places to explore: Palmerston Island and Mauke.
Palmerston Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.Mauke
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Southern Cook Islands
- Type: Island
- Description: chains of atolls in the South Pacific Ocean
- Also known as: “Cook Islands”, “Lower Cook Group”, “Lower Group”, “Southern Group”, and “Spodnji Cookovi otoki”
- Category: island group
- Location: Cook Islands, Polynesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
-20° or 20° south
Longitude of center
-159° or 159° west
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Southern Cook Islands” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lower Cook Islands”
- Chinese: “南库克群岛”
- Czech: “Jižní Cookovy ostrovy”
- Finnish: “Eteläiset Cookinsaaret”
- French: “îles Cook du Sud”
- French: “Îles Cook du Sud”
- Galician: “Illas Cook Meridionais”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Cook Selatan”
- Italian: “Isole Cook meridionali”
- Polish: “Południowe Wyspy Cooka”
- Slovak: “Južné Cookove ostrovy”
- Slovenian: “Južni Cookovi otoki”
- Swedish: “Lower Cook Islands”
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