- Tuanaki
Tuanaki is the name of a vanished group of
islet s, once part of theCook Islands . It was located south ofRarotonga [Best, Elsdon. Polynesian Voyagers. the Maori as a Deep-Sea Navigator, Explorer, and Colonizer. Wellington: Dominion Museum. New Zealand Texts Collection. 29 May 2008 [http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-BesPoly-t1-body-d1-d4.html#n10] ] and within two days sail ofMangaia . [cite book | last = Ramsay | first = Raymond | title = No Longer on the Map | publisher = Viking Press | location = New York | year = 1972 | isbn = 0670514330 | page = pg 213 ]In 1916 the
Polynesian Society of Honolulu published an account by a sailor who visited there in 1842, spending six days among the natives. Two years late a schooner of English missionaries found nothing. [cite book | last = Ramsay | first = Raymond | title = No Longer on the Map | publisher = Viking Press | location = New York | year = 1972 | isbn = 0670514330 | pages = pg 214 ]Some Tuanakians who had emigrated to Rarotonga survived.
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