Editing Rarotonga (section)

== Popular culture ==
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* The travel writer [[Robert Dean Frisbie]] died on the island, after having lived there only briefly.
* The 1995 album ''[[Finn (album)|Finn]]'' by the [[Finn Brothers]] ends with the song "Kiss the Road of Rarotonga", which was inspired by a motorcycle accident that [[Tim Finn]] had during a visit there.
* The U.S. television series ''[[Survivor: Cook Islands]]'' was filmed on Aitutaki, one of the islands in the southern group. One of the tribes was called Rarotonga (or Raro for short).
* A number of feature-length films are linked to Rarotonga: ''[[Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence]]'', depicting a Japanese POW camp for British prisoners in the island of [[Java]] in the year 1942, was filmed here, ''[[The Other Side of Heaven]]'', which is set in [[Niuatoputapu]], [[Tonga]], but was filmed in part on Rarotonga, and ''[[Johnny Lingo]]'' which was set here.
* In the 2008 film ''[[Nim's Island]]'', Rarotonga is portrayed as a waypoint for fictional adventure writer Alexandra Rover ([[Jodie Foster]]) on her journey from San Francisco to a South Pacific island.
* In 1951, Mexican writers [[Yolanda Vargas Dulché]] and Guillermo de la Parra wrote ''[[Rarotonga (comics)|Rarotonga]]'', a comic book whose plot unfolds on the island. The heroine of the story is called ''Zonga'', an enigmatic woman with superhuman powers. The comic inspired a Mexican movie filmed in 1978 and a song by the Mexican rock band [[Café Tacuba]].
* The 1948 film ''[[Another Shore]]'' has as its central character an Irish civil servant who fantasises about going to live on Rarotonga.
* Smooth Walker ([[Howard Hesseman]]) books a flight to Rarotonga in the 1983 film ''[[Doctor Detroit]]''.
* Former New Zealand cricket captain [[John Wright (cricketer, born 1954)|John Wright]]'s 1990 autobiography is titled ''Christmas in Rarotonga''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/19/1071337157415.html|title=Cricket, the Wright way|author=Gideon Haigh|author-link=Gideon Haigh|work=[[The Age]]|date=20 December 2003|access-date=28 April 2018}}</ref>