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Cook Islands
1965 – present
Sovereign stateOceania
Self-governing Polynesian state in free association with New Zealand since 1965; shares NZ head of state and citizenship.
Borders in 2026 · drawn from 1 sourced border frame
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Further reading
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The Ghost Mountain Boys
James Campbell · 1980
A concise regional history covering the Cook Islands' colonial period and its 1965 move to self-government in free association with New Zealand.
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Vaka Moana, Voyages of the Ancestors: The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific
K. R. Howe (ed.) · 2007
Covers Polynesian settlement context for Cook Islands; peer-reviewed multi-author survey
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A History of the Pacific Islands
Steven Roger Fischer · 2013
A single-volume history of the island Pacific — broad context for this polity.
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