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Kora Pearls

Manihiki Atoll / Cook Islands / Online

Cook Islands black pearls from the Manihiki lagoon

What you’ll find

What Kora Pearls is known for

From the Manihiki lagoon — the pearl heart of the Cook Islands, a thousand kilometres north of Rarotonga — Kora farms and sells the black pearls the atoll is famous for. Alongside the Tuamotu farms admitted at V189, it completes the atlas's Pacific pearl arc.