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   Cook Is·lands

   /ko͝ok ˈīləndz/

   • 1. a group of fifteen islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean between Tonga and French Polynesia, which have the status of a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand; population 19,000 (estimated 2015); languages, English (official), Rarotongan (a Polynesian language); capital, Avarua, on Rarotonga.

   Word Origin named after Captain James Cook (see Cook, Captain James), who visited them in 1773.

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