Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, Cook Islands has participated in 6 Olympics without winning a medal.
1988
The cook Islands are expected to take a team of 5. They have never won an Olympic medal.
Cook named the Hawaiian Islands the Sandwich Islands in honor of one of his sponsors, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. There are many references to Cook and the Sandwich Islands at the History of Mankind site in the related link.
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No, the Cook Islands are in Oceania.
There are no land masses 'surrounding' Cook Islands. The nearest land to the Cook Islands is New Zealand.
No, the Cook Islands are south of Hawaii,
No, The Cook Islands are another one of the pacific islands.
Captain James Cook visited the islands of Fiji, Hawaii, Cook Islands and New Zealand.
The Cook Islands, situated in the South Pacific, are named after Captain James Cook. He landed here in 1773 and again visited these islands in 1777. The Cook Islands consist of about 18 islands.
The Cook Islands are a protectorate of New Zealand.
The Sandwich Islands were named in the 1770's by James Cook and are known today as the Hawaiian Islands. Other islands in the Pacific which have at some time been known as Sandwich Island are Manuae in the Cook Islands and Efate in Vanuatu.Tonga was known as the Friendly Islands because of the reception once given to James Cook.If you are interested in the history of the Pacific Islands written in Victorian times you may be interested in 'The History of Mankind' by Prof. F Ratzel (see associated link).