Te Kukupa II is a Guardian-class patrol boat built in Australia for the Cook Islands.

[1] It replaced the original Te Kukupa, supplied to the Cook Islands three decades earlier.

At the farewell of Te Kukupa I, Australian High Commissioner Christopher Watkins noted the original Te Kukupa had been a gift from Australia at a time when Australia and the Cook Islands "were united in our anger at French nuclear testing."

"[2] Australia supplied 22 Pacific Forum-class patrol boats to 12 of its smaller Pacific Forum allies when the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea established that maritime nations controlled an economic exclusion zone 200 kilometres (120 mi) off their coasts.

[1][4] It was formally handed over to the Cook Islands at a ceremony on 9 June 2022,[5] and arrived in Rarotonga on 20 July 2022.