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Aitutaki

Aitutaki is an island in the southern Cook Islands, made up of a volcanic island and a ring of reef islets enclosing a large lagoon. Reached by William Bligh on the Bounty in 1789, it was the first of the Cook Islands to accept Christian missionaries, in 1821. It joined the federal government of the islands in the 1890s.

Aitutaki
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Cook Islands Federation

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