The Cook Islands is looking for a new name, following calls by indigenous activists to drop the colonial moniker -- which remembers Captain James Cook -- in favor of a name in the Maori tongue
The Cook Islands is searching for a new and less colonial name, ahead of a potential referendum on the issue in the former British possession.
A committee tasked with finding a new name was given government approval Tuesday, according to Radio NZ. The move follows calls by indigenous activists to drop the colonial moniker -- which remembers Captain James Cook, who visited the islands in the 1770s -- in favor of a name in the Maori tongue. The current Maori name, Kūki 'Āirani, is a transliteration of the English nomenclature rather than an indigenous term.
Captain Cook's ship may be off Rhode Island 01:11A statue of Cook which has stood in Sydney's Hyde Park for over a century was vandalized last year with graffiti reading"no pride in genocide" and"change the date," in reference to controversies over the celebration of Australia Day on January 26. This was the date in 1788 when the Union Flag was hoisted at Sydney Cove to establish a British penal colony.
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