Tuanaki

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Tuanaki is the name of a vanished group of islets, once part of the Cook Islands. It was located south of Rarotonga[1] and within two days sail of Mangaia.[2]

In 1916 the Polynesian Society of Honolulu published an account by a sailor who visited there in 1842, spending six days among the natives. Two years late a schooner of English missionaries found nothing. [3]

Some Tuanakians who had emigrated to Rarotonga survived.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Best, Elsdon. Polynesian Voyagers. the Maori as a Deep-Sea Navigator, Explorer, and Colonizer. Wellington: Dominion Museum. New Zealand Texts Collection. 29 May 2008 [1]
  2. ^ Ramsay, Raymond (1972). No Longer on the Map. New York: Viking Press, pg 213. ISBN 0670514330. 
  3. ^ Ramsay, Raymond (1972). No Longer on the Map. New York: Viking Press, pg 214. ISBN 0670514330.