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    Mangaia (traditionally known as A'ua'u Enua, which means terraced) is the most southerly of the Cook Islands and the second largest, after Rarotonga....
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    food, and firewood. Their favourite islands were Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mangaia and Penrhyn. The Cook Islands became aligned to the United Kingdom in 1890...
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  • The Mangaia swiftlet (Aerodramus manuoi) is an extinct species of bird in the swift family. It became extinct during prehistoric times. It was endemic...
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  • Gospel Day 25 May Palmerston Island Palmerston Gospel Day 15 June Mangaia Mangaia Gospel Day 20 July Atiu Atiu Gospel Day 21 July Mitiaro Mitiaro Gospel...
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  • The mewing kingfisher or Mangaia kingfisher (Todiramphus ruficollaris), known locally as the tanga‘eo, is a species of bird in the Alcedinidae, or kingfisher...
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  • language of Rapa Iti, in the Austral Islands of French Polynesia, and of Mangaia in the Cook Islands. It is an Eastern Polynesian language. There are three...
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    Giant swamphen, Porphyrio sp. (New Ireland, Melanesia) Mangaia swamphen, Porphyrio sp. (Mangaia, Cook Islands) (not to genus Pareudiastes) New Ireland...
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    Islands, the Gilbert Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Tonga, Marquesas, Mangaia in the Cook Islands, Rapa Iti in French Polynesia, Easter Island, the Chatham...
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    Hina is the name assigned to a number of Polynesian deities. The name Hina usually relates to a powerful female force (typically a goddess or queen) who...
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  • 89583°S 157.90667°W / -21.89583; -157.90667 Mangaia Airport (IATA: MGS, ICAO: NCMG) is an airport on Mangaia in the Cook Islands. It lies 45 feet (14 m)...
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  • The Mangaia crake (Porzana rua) is an extinct species of flightless bird in the rail family, Rallidae. The crake was described in 1986 from subfossil...
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    was ariki (king) of the Numangatini dynasty, a chiefdom on the island of Mangaia. Tione (also known as John) was a son of Numangatini Ariki. Before Missionaries...
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  • in June 2006, triggering fuel and electricity crises on the island of Mangaia. The tribes were named after the islands of the Cook Islands: Manihiki...
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  • Tapere (section Mangaia)
    traditional land subdivision on five of the Southern Cook Islands (Rarotonga, Mangaia, Aitutaki, Atiu, and Mauke), comparable to the ahupua'a of the main Hawaiian...
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    Rongo (category Mangaia mythology)
    agriculture and god of war in the southern Cook Islands, especially on Mangaia where the Akaoro marae and Orongo marae were centres of his worship; where...
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    Aitutaki Airport Atiu  Cook Islands AIU NCAT Enua Airport Mangaia  Cook Islands MGS NCMG Mangaia Airport Manihiki  Cook Islands MHX NCMH Manihiki Island...
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    reefs is characterised in several cases consistent with sealevel fall at Mangaia, of at least 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) in the last 3400 years. The northern Suwarrow...
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  • The Mangaia rail (Gallirallus ripleyi) is an extinct species of flightless bird in the rail family, Rallidae. The rail was described in 1986 from subfossil...
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    have no obligation to help each other in any way..." The aborigines of Mangaia island of Polynesia, who mastered the English language, used the word "love"...
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    Tokelau: Nigeria Cook Islands: Chad, (Penrhyn) Central African Republic, (Mangaia) Libya, (Pukapuka) Cameroon, (Nassau) Nigeria France 12 Mainland: New Zealand...
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    moist forests and the Cook Islands tropical moist forests. Aitutaki Atiu Mangaia Manuae Mauke Mitiaro Palmerston Island Rarotonga (capital) Takutea Manihiki...
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    may be a completely new genus. Similarly, the undescribed "swamphen" of Mangaia, currently tentatively assigned to Porphyrio, may belong to Gallinula/Pareudiastes...
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    Makatea, or Mangaia-te-vai-tamae, is a raised coral atoll in the northwestern part of the Tuamotus, which is a part of the French overseas collectivity...
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    China Gorgona Island Malpelo Island Aitutaki Atiu Pamati (Palmerston) Mangaia Manihiki (Humphrey) Manuae (Hervey) Mauke (Parry) Mitiaro (Nukuroa) Nassau...
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    instances of death by coconut include: In approximately 1777, King Tetui of Mangaia in the Cook Islands had a concubine who died after being struck by "a falling...
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  • southern Taranaki, New Zealand Tongatea, wife of Ngaru in the mythology of Mangaia of the Cook Islands Manu-Tongātea This disambiguation page lists articles...
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  • Islands," but there is no land between the southernmost Cook Islands of Mangaia and Antarctica. The film begins and ends in the same location, on the Arrington...
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  • century recounting the legends about ʻAvaiki as the underworld or Hades of Mangaia in the Cook Islands. Gill (1876:155) records a proverb: Ua po Avaiki, ua...
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  • English rock band Moko (mythology), the king of lizards in the mythology of Mangaia in the Cook Islands Tomb of the Lizard King, a 1982 Dungeons & Dragons...
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    populations exist on the Cook Islands, especially Pukapuka, Suwarrow, Mangaia, Takutea, Mauke, Atiu, and Palmerston Island. These are close to the eastern...
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