The
Cook Islands span roughly the same longitudes as the Hawaiian
archipelago but lie about 2000 miles to the south.
The 15 Cook Islands cover 850,000 square miles of the tropical
South Pacifc but consist of only 92 square miles of emergent
land.
CCRC
will conduct the Humpback survey
from Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Palmerston, Penrhyn, Atiu and
other outer islands. See updates for current information.