Background
He was born in Rarotonga, the main island of the Cooks.
He was born in Rarotonga, the main island of the Cooks.
Kauraka studied in New Zealand, Fiji and other countries.
He published six collections of poems in the English and Rarotongan languages. When Kauraka died in 1997, he was buried on the atoll of Manihiki, northern Cooks.