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Atiu is over eight million years old and the third largest island in the Cooks. This island is an ecologist’s dream – and a magnet for the adventurer. A volcanic mass which has risen up out of the sea to be surrounded by a raised coral limestone reef named makatea. Its utter peace and harmony with nature certainly belay the island’s reputation of having harboured some of the fiercest warriors of the Southern Cooks , who constantly laid siege on their smaller neighbours in Mitiaro and Mauke. Sandy beaches on Atiu are scattered and secluded - but there are many to discover tucked like little secrets into the coast. Unspoiled and lush with dense rainforest and an unexpected central plateau – according to legend when the Polynesians landed on Atiu’s white crested shores, birds and insects were its only life.