Cook had named the gathering the Hervey Islands, after a British Lord of the Admiralty, yet they were renamed the Cook Islands, to pay tribute to the extraordinary pioneer, somewhere in the range of 50 years after the fact by the Russian map maker, Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern.
UCook waqamba lo mbuthano ngokuthi iziQhingi ZaseHervey, ngeNkosi yase-Admiralty yaseBrithani, nokho zaqanjwa kabusha ngokuthi iziQhingi zaseCook, ukuze zihloniphe iphayona elijwayelekile, endaweni ethile eminyakeni engama-50 ngemuva kokwenziwa ngumenzi wemephu waseRussia, u-Admiral U-Adam Johann von Krusenstern.