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Tangaroa – Cook Islands

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Tangaroa – Cook Islands

This coin from the Cook Islands shows a carving of Tangaroa, god of the sea.

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Rāwiri Taonui, Whakapapa – genealogy – Whakapapa with links to Polynesia, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/30904/tangaroa-cook-islands (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rāwiri Taonui, published 3 May 2011, updated 1 July 2015.