These traditional Polynesian dancers on the remote atoll Pukapuka in the Northern Cook Islands performed dances in the 1980s that had been seen by few outsiders. Until recently the atoll had been visited only by government officials, traders (buying copra), slavers (capturing slaves to sell to the mines in Peru), and missionaries. In the next few decades as global warming progresses, Pukapuka and the other atolls of the Northern Cooks will vanish beneath the ocean forever.