According to an article published in Honolulu’s “Polynesian” newspaper on Jan. 21, 1860, Captain Sinclair of the American schooner, “Wamp,” had recently recruited four men and six women at Manihiki ...

Today, the few whitewashed churches on Manihiki are mostly empty. Houses are boarded up or starting to collapse; a tennis court is cracked and overgrown with grass. Out on the lagoon, the rickety ...

FROM June until August 1960 an oceanographic survey of the lagoon at Manihiki Atoll, an atoll lying 10° south of the equator in the Northern Cook Group, was carried out by members of the New Zealand ...