Although the Cook Islands only house around 15,000 people, less than an filled out NBA arena, under the surface of its two million square kilometer exclusive economic zone(EEZ) holds one of the most valuable seabeds on earth. Lying on the Penrhyn Basin, billions of metric tons of Polymetallic nodules contain …
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