The Cook Islands was within the New Zealand borders from 1901. In 1965, it became self governing but in free association with New Zealand. It is a realm country of New Zealand, along with Niue and ...

On the windswept stretch of Koekohe Beach along New Zealand’s Otago coast, a group of massive, spherical rocks has been ...

North Sentinel Island remains one of Earth's last true time capsules—its people living as their ... [+] ancestors did for millennia, untouched by modern civilization. And since 1956, the Indian ...

Flooding and power outages have been reported in Taupō this evening as heavy thunderstorms strike the central North Island. MetService earlier issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the central ...

A number of the attraction’s tour guides, who tell the site’s stories, legends and history, are descendants of the Maori chief who originally explored the caves. Although some former travelers ...

Last week, a netizen and self-described Korean learner uploaded an image to the social media app RedNote (Xiaohongshu), purportedly showing a map published in April 2024 by a North Korean map ...

The Isle of Tiree, also known as the 'Hawaii of the North' and the 'Sunshine Island' of the UK, is one of Scotland’s most stunning and serene locations. Thanks to the Gulf Stream, the island ...

Aman Vir created an interactive map of his favorite obscure islands. Some you may well have heard of, such as Midway, for ...

Nearly 100,000 people who identify as Cook Island Maori live in New Zealand currently. According to New Zealand's foreign ministry, New Zealand has a constitutional obligation to respond to ...

Because of its small size, South Padre Island is often grouped with other towns along the Gulf Coast of Texas, such as Port Isabel and Brownsville, both of which make great daytrips. The town of ...