Cook Island (other)

	Cook Island (other) Cook Island may refer to: * Cook Island of Kiritimati, Kiribati * Cook Island (New South Wales), an island Cook Island Aquatic Reserve, a marine protected area in New South Wales Cook Island Nature Reserve, a protected area in New South Wales Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands, central island in Southern Thule "Cook Island" is the adjectival demonym for people and things from the Cook Islands See also * Cook Islands, self-governing democracy in the Pacific in free association with New Zealand * Cook (other) Cook or The Cook may refer to: Food preparation * Cooking, the preparation of food * Cook (domestic worker), a household staff member who prepares food * Cook (professional), an individual who prepares food for consumption in the food industry * ... {{place name disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Kiritimati Kiritimati (also known as Christmas Island) is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands. It is part of the Republic of Kiribati. The name is derived from the English word "Christmas" written in Gilbertese according to its phonology, in which the combination ''ti'' is pronounced ''s'', giving kiˈrɪsmæs. Kiritimati has the greatest land area of any atoll in the world, about ; its lagoon is roughly the same size. The atoll is about in perimeter, while the lagoon shoreline extends for over . Kiritimati comprises over 70% of the total land area of Kiribati, a country encompassing 33 Pacific atolls and islands. It lies north of the equator, south of Honolulu, and from San Francisco. Kiritimati is in the world's farthest forward time zone, UTC+14, and is therefore one of the first inhabited places on Earth to experience New Year's Day. (see also Caroline Atoll, Kiribati). Although it lies east of the 180th meridian, the Republic of Kiribati realigned the Internati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Cook Island (New South Wales) __NOTOC__ Cook Island, formerly Cooks Island, Turtle Island and Joong-urra-narrian, is an island in the Australian state of New South Wales located on the state's north coast about north-east of Fingal Head and south-east of the town of Tweed Heads. Description Geology and topography Cook Island is formed of “rocks from the Lismore Basalt Group, formed by lava flows from the Mount Warning Shield Volcano approximately 20 million years ago.” The Island is a “protrusion of eroded basalt” of a maximum height of above sea level and topped with a plateau. The western side of the island has a “gentle” slope while the remaining sides are “sheer cliffs” dropping to “low-lying rock shelves”. The top of the island and its western side are overlaid by a “shallow cover of topsoil.” A “semi-permanent freshwater basin” is located in the island's northern side. Climate In 2011, the average annual rainfall was reported as being . Access Access to the island is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cook Island Aquatic Reserve __NOTOC__ Cook Island Aquatic Reserve is a marine protected area located in the South Pacific Ocean, located around Cook Island about from the Fingal Head mainland of New South Wales. The aquatic reserve consists of the waters around the island within a radius of of a survey marker located on the island up to the Mean High Water Mark. It was declared on 23 October 1998 under the state's ''Fisheries Management Act 1994''. As of 2016, its area was . The aquatic reserve consists of two zones – one extending from Mean High Water Mark on the island to a "boundary defined by five marker buoys" where fishing is prohibited and another extending from the "marker bouys" to the outer boundary of the aquatic reserve where fishing is permitted. The waters within the aquatic reserve are used for recreational activities including swimming, boating and diving. Thirteen moorings have been located within the aquatic reserve for use by boats to eliminate the need to anchor and therefore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cook Island Nature Reserve __NOTOC__ Cook Island Nature Reserve is a protected area in the Australian state of new South Wales located on Cook Island (New South Wales), Cook Island about off the coastline from the headland of Fingal Head and about south-east of Tweed Heads on the state's north coast. The nature reserve consists of the full extent of Cook Island down to the Mean High Water Mark. The land under protection was first proclaimed as a fauna reserve under the ''Fauna Protection Act 1948 '' on 8 August 1959. It became a nature reserve under the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1967'' in 1967. It is surrounded by the Cook Island Aquatic Reserve. As of 2016, it covered an area of . In 1978, the nature reserve was described as follows: Cook Island provides a breeding habitat for seabirds, in particular the crested tern (''Sterna bergii'') and the wedge tailed shearwater (''Puffinus pacificus''). The crested tern is an international migratory bird. The island is well vegetated with closed scrub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands Cook Island is the central and largest island of the Southern Thule island group, part of the South Sandwich Islands in the far south Atlantic Ocean. Southern Thule was discovered by a British expedition under Captain James Cook in 1775. Cook Island was named for Cook by a Russian expedition under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, which explored the South Sandwich Islands in 1819–1820. The island was surveyed in 1930 by Discovery Investigations (DI) personnel on ''Discovery II'', who charted and named many of its features. Other names were later applied by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC). Geography Cook Island measures about wide. It is heavily glaciated and uninhabited. Its highest peak, Mount Harmer, rises to . Mount Holdgate rises at the southeast end of the island. Working clockwise from the northwest, the following points are found on the island's coast. All were named by DI personnel unless otherwise specified. Resolution Point is a poi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Cook Islands ) , image_map = Cook Islands on the globe (small islands magnified) (Polynesia centered).svg , capital = Avarua , coordinates = , largest_city = Avarua , official_languages = , languages_type = Spoken languages , languages = , ethnic_groups = , ethnic_groups_year = 2016 census , demonym = Cook Islander , government_type = , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = , leader_title2 = 's Representative , leader_name2 = Sir Tom Marsters , leader_title3 = Prime Minister , leader_name3 = Mark Brown , leader_title4 = President of the House of Ariki , leader_name4 = Tou Travel Ariki , legislature = Parliament , sovereignty_type = Associated state of New Zealand , established_event1 = Self-governance , established_date1 = 4 August 1965 , establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]