Cook had named the group the Hervey Islands, after a British Lord of the Admiralty, but they were renamed Cook Islands, in honour of the great explorer, some 50 years later by the Russian cartographer, Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern.
Cook wuxuu ku magacaabay isu-soo-uruurinta Jasiiradaha Hervey, oo loogu magac daray Sayidkii Ingiriiska ee Admiralty, laakiin haddana waxaa loogu magac daray Jasiiradaha Cook, si ay u sharfaan horjoogaha aan caadiga ahayn, meel u dhexeysa 50 sano ka dib xaqiiqda ruuxii sameeyey khariidadda Ruushka, Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern.