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Cook Islands
| Location |
S Pacific Ocean, NE of New Zealand |
| Latitude and longitude |
21 14 S, 159 46 W |
| Sovereignty |
Independent; freely associated with New Zealand |
| United Nations member? |
No |
| Population |
14,200 |
| Census notes |
2008 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
237 |
| Capital |
Avarua |
Fundamental legal document(s) online
|
| Constitution
of the Cook Islands, from the Pacific Islands Legal Information
Institute at the University of the South Pacific School of Law |
| Constitution
of the Cook Islands (PDF 282K), from the Cook Islands
Information Page |
| Cook
Islands Act 1915 (New Zealand), from the Government of New
Zealand |
| Cook
Islands Amendment Act 1980 (New Zealand), from the Government of
New Zealand |
| Cook
Islands Constitution Act 1964 (New Zealand), from the Government
of New Zealand |
| Joint
Centenary Declaration of the Principles of the Relationship between the
Cook Islands and New Zealand (PDF 90K), from the Cook Islands
Information Page |
Other legal documents online
|
|
Cook
Islands Law, a collection of statutes, laws, judicial decisions
and other materials from the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute
at the University of the South Pacific School of Law |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Cook
Islands, from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
| Cook
Islands, map and basic demographic and economic data from the
South Pacific Island Web Atlas, provided by the GIS Unit of the
University of the South Pacific |
| Cook
Islands, from Radio Australia’s Charting the Pacific |
| Cook
Islands, from Radio Australia’s Time to Talk |
| The Cook Islands |
| Cook Islands
Information Page, an excellent but unofficial collection of
legal materials and articles on the Cook Islands and their relationship
with New Zealand |
| Cook
Islands Sources of Law Information, by Professor Don Paterson of the
University of the South Pacific, from the Pacific Islands Legal
Information Institute |
| Cook
Islands Statistics Office |
|
Country Profile—Cook Islands, from the Food and Agriculture
Organization |
| Dependencies
and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of the Geographer and
Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of
State, Washington, D.C. |
| Development
Investment Board of the Cook Islands |
| Finding
Cook Islands, from David Stanley’s South Pacific Organizer |
| Government of
the Cook Islands |
| Island
Information and Maps,
from Kiaorana.com (graphics rich but slow loading) |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
| Voyage
to Statehood, from the Government of the Cook Islands |
Selected articles on law and political status
|
| The
Cook Islands' Unique Constitutional and International Status (PDF
181K) from the Cook Islands
Information Page |
| The
External Affairs and Defence of the Cook Islands - the 'Riddiford
clause' Considered, by Alex Frame, in volume 17 of the Victoria University of Wellington Law
Review (New Zealand) at page 141 (1987), available on the Cook Islands
Information Page |
| The
New Zealand Model of Free Association: What Does it Mean for New Zealand,
by Alison Quentin-Baxter, in volume 39 of the Victoria University
of Wellington Law Review (New Zealand), at page 607 (2008) (PDF 149K) |
| The Strange Death of the Realm of New Zealand: The Implications of a New Zealand Republic for the Cook Islands and
Niue, by Andrew Townend (PDF 468K), from the Cook Islands
Information Page |
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