Manuae is an uninhabited atoll in the southern group of the Cook Islands, 100 kilometres south-east of Aitutaki.

Manuae is a true atoll sitting on the peak of a submerged volcano which descends over 4000 meters to the ocean bed.

[1] He visited again on 6 April 1777 during his third voyage, and found the island inhabited and apparently under the control of an Ariki from Atiu.

[5]: 92 In July 1823 the island was visited by John Williams of the London Missionary Society, who found it inhabited by sixty people.

[8] In April/May 1965 the population briefly increased to more than a hundred when the island was visited by six expeditions (from Australia, N.Z., Japan, U.K., U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.) to observe the total solar eclipse of 30 May 1965.

[11] The island once supported a copra industry with a settlement established next to the small reef passage less than one kilometer northeast of Turakino, the westernmost point of the atoll.