CAPITAL AVARUA - POPULATION 21,750 - AREA 236.7 SQ KM - OFFICIAL LANGUAGE ENGLISH
Handy flights from New Zealand and Australia mean that you will be more than likely to run into honeymooners from Auckland or a family from Sydney in Rarotonga. The main island's resorts will be booked out for the 2009 Pacific Island Mini Games when around 20 islander nations compete and rub noses. Explore the further-flung islands with a dip in the caves of Mitiaro, which hold refreshing subterranean pools, or by making your way to Suwarrow, where the famous hermit Tom Neale pitched camp for several years while he penned his book An Island to Oneself.
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