How Niue gets its name?

 Kia ora and welcome back to my blog!! Today's blog-post is about how Niue gets its name? 

Let’s go back to where it all began in the South Pacific ocean where captain James Cook and his crew first sighted Niue in the year 1774. It was said that James Cook made three attempts to the island but couldn’t because the native people declined James Cook wishes and that’s when James Cook Named the island “Savage island” because as legend has it, the native who greeted him were painted in what appears to be blood. For the last couple of centuries the name “Savage island” was then changed to “Niue” Which translates to behold the coconut.