Tuanaki
Tuanaki or Tuanahe is the name of a vanished group of small islands that were once part of the Cook Islands . It was south of Rarotonga and two days' sailing from Mangaia .
In 1916 the Polynesian Society of Honolulu published the report of a navigator who visited there in 1842 and spent six days with the natives. Two years later a schooner with English missionaries could no longer find anything from the islands.
Some Tuanakians survived because they emigrated to Rarotonga.
The theory has been suggested that the Haymet Rocks were a holdover from Tuanaki. However, the existence of the Haymet rocks themselves is unproven.
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- ↑ Best, Elsdon. Polynesian Voyagers. the Maori as a Deep-Sea Navigator, Explorer, and Colonizer. Wellington: Dominion Museum. New Zealand Texts Collection. 29 May 2008 [1]
- ^ Raymond Ramsay: No Longer on the Map . Viking Press, New York 1972, ISBN 0670514330 , p. 213.
- ^ William Wyatt Gill, Stephenson Percy Smith: Rarotonga Records: Being Extracts from the Papers of the Late Rev. W. Wyatt Gill . The Polynesian Society, 1916, pp. 29-31.
- ^ Henry Stommel: Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts . University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver 1984, ISBN 0774802103 , p. 60.