Finding Paradise-Cook Islands
5 min readAug 25, 2020
Cook Islands are part of Polynesia — the islands within a triangular area in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and New Zealand, spread across some 10 million square miles of water. The islands of Polynesia were are amongst the last places on Earth to be settled by humans. Long before Portuguese, Spanish, and British explorers, Polynesians have been exploring South Pacific in a huge ocean canoes. The Cook Islands…