Makea Pori Ariki (b?–1839) was a sovereign of the Cook Islands. He was the ariki (king or high chief) of the Makea Nui (Great Makea) dynasty one of the three chiefdoms of the Te Au O Tonga tribe on the island of Rarotonga. He succeeded his father Makea Tinirau Ariki after his death in 1823. In the same year the English missionary John Williams arrived at Rarotonga intending to convert the population to Christianity.
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