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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">K2QBV will be
active from South Cook Islands in summer 2014 as<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>E51QBV</STRONG><BR>He
will be active also from New Zealand as K2QBV/ZL or ZL/K2QBV<BR>QSL via
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Cook Islands were
first settled in the 6th century CE by Polynesian people who migrated from
Tahiti an island 1154 km to the northeast of Cook
Islands.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Spanish ships visited
the islands in the 16th century; the first written record of contact
with the islands came with the sighting of Pukapuka by Spanish sailor
Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira in 1595 who called it<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>San Bernardo</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>(Saint Bernard). Pedro Fernandes
de Queirós, a Portuguese captain working for the Spanish crown, made the
first recorded European landing in the islands when he set foot on
Rakahanga in 1606, calling it<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Gente Hermosa</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>(Beautiful
People).</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">British navigator
Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777<SUP><FONT size=4><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></SUP>and named the
islands the<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Hervey
Islands</I>; the name "Cook Islands", in honour of Cook, appeared on a
Russian naval chart published in the 1820s.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In 1813 John Williams, a
missionary on the<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Endeavour</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>(not the same ship as Cook's)
made the first recorded sighting of Rarotonga. The first recorded landing
on Rarotonga by Europeans was in 1814 by the<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Cumberland</I>; trouble broke
out between the sailors and the Islanders and many were killed on both
sides. The islands saw no more Europeans until missionaries arrived from
England in 1821. Christianity quickly took hold in the culture and many
islanders continue to be Christian believers today.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Cook Islands became
a British protectorate in 1888, due largely to community fears that France
might occupy the territory as it had Tahiti. In 1901 the New Zealand
Government decided to annex the country despite opposition from the
country's traditional chiefs. As many of the islands were independent and
ruled by local chiefs, the Cook Islands had no federal statutory law to
decide the constitutional constraints regarding whether to agree to the
country's annexation. When the British Nationality and New Zealand
Citizenship Act 1948 came into effect on 1 January 1949, Cook
Islanders who were British subjects gained New Zealand citizenship.The
country remained a New Zealand protectorate until 1965, when the New
Zealand Government decided to offer self-governing status to its colony.
In that year, Albert Henry of the Cook Islands Party was elected as the
first Prime Minister. Henry led the country until he was accused of
vote-rigging. He was succeeded in 1978 by Tom Davis of the Democratic
Party.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><A
style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,255); TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Islands"
target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Islands</A></SPAN></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></BODY></HTML>