Where is Manuae located?
Q: Where is Manuae located?
A: Manuae is an uninhabited atoll in the southern group of the Cook Islands, 100 kilometres south-east of Aitutaki.
Q: What is the size of Manuae?
A: Manuae has a total area of 6.17 km²on either side of a lagoon about 7 km x 4 km. The lagoon is 13 km² in size.
Q: Who named the island?
A: Captain James Cook sighted Manuae on September 23 1773 and initially named it Sandwich Island, but changed it to Hervey Island in honor of Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol. Later, Russian cartographer von Krusenstern renamed the islands as the Cook Islands in 1824 in honour of Capt. Cook who had died in 1779.
Q: What wildlife can be found on Manuae?
A: The island is a marine park and is an important breeding ground for seabirds and marine turtles in the Central Pacific. The offshore waters are also good fishing grounds.
Q: What happened during 1965 at Manuae?
A: In April/May 1965, there was a brief population increase to 120 when six expeditions (from Australia, N.Z., Japan, U.K., U.S.A., and U.S.S
