Cook Islands Geography
According to indexdotcom, the Cook Islands are an independent island nation in the southwestern Pacific and belong to Polynesia, as the islands in the central Pacific are collectively called. The Cook Islands are roughly halfway between the islands of American Samoa and Tahiti (French Polynesia ). The Cook Islands is administratively in “free association” with New Zealand and covers a total area of 236 square kilometers. The Cook Islands are scattered over an expanse of water about a third of…