Matunga, also known as Morokai, is an islet in Penrhyn Atoll (Tongareva) in the Cook Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. [1] The islet is in the northwest of the atoll, just south of Tekasi. Matunga contains the ruins of a marae, Kirihuri, as well as a ruined church. It was one of the missionary villages depopulated by Peruvian slavers. [2]
In 1890 after an outbreak of leprosy the island was used as a leper colony and was renamed "morokai". [3] The remaining lepers were evacuated to Fiji in 1929. [4]
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