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Guarding Pacific’s ‘triple star’

Saturday 11 August 2018 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Opinion

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Guarding Pacific’s ‘triple star’
Some of the people who help keep an eye on the Cook Islands' massive exclusive economic zone. 18081016

When Irishman Thomas Bracken wrote the New Zealand National Anthem in 1870, he included the lines, “Guard Pacific’s triple star”, from the shafts of strife and war.

When Irishman Thomas Bracken wrote the New Zealand National Anthem in 1870, he included the lines, “Guard Pacific’s triple star”, from the shafts of strife and war.


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