Rakahanga

Rakahanga is a small atoll of about four square kilometres in the northern Cook Islands, lying 44 kilometres from its neighbour Manihiki. According to oral tradition, the first settlers, the Rarotongan exile Toa and his wife Tapairu, came to the atoll around 1350 and settled on the motu of Te Kainga near the south-western lagoon entrance. The Spanish expedition of Pedro Fernández de Quirós came upon the island on 2 March 1606.