Capital: Avarua
Population: 17,518
Languages: English, Cook Islands Maori
Currency: New Zealand & Cook Is. Dollars
COOK ISLANDS

Herpetological stamps were also issued by the following Cook Island territories:
Aitutaki
Penrhyn Islands

 

1995


YEAR OF THE SEA TURTLE
(SG 1382-1385)

85c Green turtle
Chelonia mydas
$1 Hawksbill turtle
Eretmochelys imbricata
$1.75 Green turtle
Chelonia mydas
$2.25 Hawksbill turtle
Eretmochelys imbricata

 

 
Name on stamp
Current name
Accepted common name
85c
Chelonia mydas
Chelonia mydas
Green sea turtle
$1
Eretmochelys imbricata
Eretmochelys imbricata
Hawksbill sea turtle
$1.75
Chelonia mydas
Chelonia mydas
Green sea turtle
$2.25
Eretmochelys imbricata
Eretmochelys imbricata
Hawksbill sea turtle

Four stamps featuring two sea turtle species found in the Cook Islands.

 

2007

MARINE LIFE
(SG 1526-1529)

$3 Hawksbill turtle
Eretmochelys imbricata
$3 Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
$3 Green turtle
Chelonia mydas
$3 Olive Ridley turtles
Lepidochelys olivacea

 
$3 Hawksbill turtle
Eretmochelys imbricata
$3 Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
$3 Green turtle
Chelonia mydas
$3 Olive Ridley turtles
Lepidochelys olivacea

 

 

 
Name on stamp
Current name
Accepted common name
$3
Eretmochelys imbricata
Eretmochelys imbricata
Hawksbill sea turtle
$3
Dermochelys coriacea
Dermochelys coriacea
Leatherback sea turtle
$3
Chelonia mydas
Chelonia mydas
Green sea turtle
$3
Lepidochelys olivacea
Lepidochelys olivacea
Olive Ridley sea turtle

Four stamps featuring the four sea turtle species found in the Cook Islands,
issued as se-tenant block and as individual stamps.