The National Archives of the Cook Islands (NACI) was created in 1974 in the
Cook Islands
The Cook Islands is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of 15 islands whose total land area is approximately . The Cook Islands' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) covers of ocean. Avarua is its ...
for ensuring the
safe storage of government,
cultural and oral traditions of the nation. Originally housed in the Takitumu Hostel at
Takamoa, the archives moved to the
National Library of the Cook Islands building, and then in 1987 to the
Takuvaine Valley Seismological Observatory.
The archives were badly damaged by Cyclone Sally in early 1987.
It has a collection of over 4,000 images of the islands in the 1950s from the Donald Stanley Marshall collection.
Cook Islands Archive
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See also
* List of national archives
National archives are central archive, archives maintained by countries or nation states. This article contains a list of national archives. In some countries, National library, national libraries serve the same purpose as national archives - or ...
References
External links
* https://www.culture.gov.ck/category/national-archives/
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Cook Islands
The Cook Islands is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of 15 islands whose total land area is approximately . The Cook Islands' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) covers of ocean. Avarua is its ...
Archives in the Cook Islands