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Country Profile: Cook Islands

Country Resources


Nautical
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
New Zealand Bathymetric ChartsNew Zealand Oceanographic Institution1:200,0001966 – 19662

Thematic
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
The World 1:30,000,000 Scale Topographic Map Series 1145 (NGA)DMA1:30,000,0002

Global Census Archive: GIS Census Data

East View Geospatial has an ongoing effort to add GIS census data to our Global Census Archive program. Please contact us for the status and availability of Cook Islands census resources.


Global Resources

Topographic
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Soviet Military City PlansVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)Varies1944 – 20033017
Soviet Military 1:100,000 Scale Topographic MapsVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)1:100,0001947 – 199924897
Soviet Military 1:200,000 Scale Topographic MapsVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)1:200,0001949 – 200917799
Soviet Military 1:500,000 Scale Topographic MapsVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)1:500,0001953 – 19983093

Nautical
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
NGA Nautical Charts POD Certified (All Scales)National Geospatial-Intelligence AgencyVaries1943 – 20134517

Aeronautical
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Joint Operations Graphic (JOG) 1:250,000 – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:250,0001958 – 20074204
Tactical Pilotage Chart (TPC) 1:500,000 Scale – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:500,0001967 – 2006598
Operational Navigation Chart (ONC) 1:1,000,000 Scale – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:1,000,0001969 – 2001243
Jet Navigation Chart (JNC) 1:2,000,000 Scale – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:2,000,0001971 – 1999117
Global Navigation and Planning Chart (GNC) 1:5,000,000 Scale – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:5,000,0001981 – 199927

Geoscientific
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Soviet Military 1:1,000,000 Scale Topographic MapsVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)1:1,000,0001948 – 19941089

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Historical Country Mapping Information

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Topographic

The Cook Islands are administered by New Zealand and mapping of the group has been carried out by various New Zealand surveying authorities. A 1:25,000 scale series (Info-Map 272) was started in the early 1980s by the New Zealand Department of Survey and Land Information (now Land Information New Zealand (LINZ)) and Terralink. These four-color metric maps have an orthophoto base and are on a Transverse Mercator projection, International ellipsoid. Other larger scale mapping of islands in the group is compiled by the Cook Islands Survey Department on Raratonga.

Soviet military topographic mapping of the Cook Islands is available at the following scale: 1:1,000,000 (6 sheets, complete coverage, published in 1965). This product is available in print, digital raster and digital vector GIS formats from East View Geospatial.

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Nautical

Oceanographic charting of the islands was compiled by the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute (NZOI), (now National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd. (NIWA)) including six-sheet 1:200,000 scale coverage. Different constituent bodies within what are now the New Zealand Crown Science Research Institutes compiled thematic coverage of the group in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Geological/Scientific

A single-sheet geological map of Raratonga was issued by the New Zealand Geological Survey, now Institute for Geological and Nuclear Sciences (IGNS).

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Soil

The New Zealand Soil Bureau mapped the Cook Islands in a six sheet 1:15,000 scale soil series published with explanatory notes. in 1986.

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