Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Cook Islands wants to wipe colonial name off South Pacific map

The Cook Islands wants to ditch a name commemorating an 18th century English sea captain and dreamt up by Russian map makers, the head of a committee tasked with picking a new name for the South Pacific tourist hub said on Wednesday.


from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2SNzUzI

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