The Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu Kokos [Keeling]), officially the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands (/ˈkoʊkəs/; Cocos Islands...
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Cocos may refer to: Cocos, Bahia, Brazil Cocos, Quebradillas, Puerto Rico, a barrio Cocos Island (disambiguation) Cocos (Keeling) Islands, a territory...
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Coconut (redirect from Cocos nucifera)
The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus Cocos. The term "coconut" (or...
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The Cocos plate is a young oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Central America, named for Cocos Island, which rides...
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Cocos Island (Spanish: Isla del Coco) is an island in the Pacific Ocean administered by Costa Rica, approximately 550 km (342 mi; 297 nmi) southwest of...
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Cocos Island or Coco Island may refer to: Cocos: Cocos Island, off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica (Spanish: Isla del Coco) Cocos Island (Panama), in...
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The Cocos booby (Sula brewsteri), formerly known as Brewster's booby, is a species of booby in the family Sulidae. It was formerly considered a subspecies...
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The Cocos finch (Pinaroloxias inornata) or Cocos Island finch, is the only one of the Darwin's finches not native to the Galápagos Islands, and the only...
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Cartier Islands, the Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands...
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Cocos Malays are a community that form the predominant group of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, which is now a part of Australia. Today, most of the Cocos...
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Time in Australia (redirect from Time in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
currently used in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, or Queensland. The Cocos (Keeling) Islands uses UTC+06:30 year round, Christmas Island uses UTC+07:00...
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Cocos Malay is a post-creolized variety of Malay, spoken by the Cocos Malays of Home Island, Christmas Island, and those originally from the Cocos Islands...
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Syagrus romanzoffiana (redirect from Cocos Palm)
Syagrus romanzoffiana, the queen palm, cocos palm or Jerivá, is a palm native to South America, introduced throughout the world as a popular ornamental...
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The Cocos tyrannulet (Nesotriccus ridgwayi), also known as the Cocos flycatcher, is a Vulnerable species of bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae...
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The Cocos cuckoo (Coccyzus ferrugineus) is a Vulnerable species of bird in the tribe Phaenicophaeini, subfamily Cuculinae of the cuckoo family Cuculidae...
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Clunies-Ross family (redirect from King of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
The Clunies-Ross family were the original settlers of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, a small archipelago in the Indian Ocean. From 1827 to 1978, the family...
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Pseudoepicoccum cocos is an ascomycete fungus that is a plant pathogen infecting coconut palms. It was recorded in Australia in 1992. HYDE, K. D (1992)...
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The Battle of Cocos was a single-ship action that occurred on 9 November 1914, after the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney, under the command of John...
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Soccer is a minor sport in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. The Cocos (Keeling) Islands national football team has competed in the Inter-Island Cup. In 2015...
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Cocos Islands, also called Ile Aux Cocos, are a group of small islets in the Seychelles archipelago. They can be found 7 km north of La Digue and lies...
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Anolis townsendi (redirect from Cocos Island anole)
townsendi, Townsend's anole or Cocos Island anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is endemic to Cocos Island in Costa Rica. A...
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settlement on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, in Australia. It is located on Home Island and has a population of about 448, mainly Cocos Malays. Bantam was...
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The Cocos Islands mutiny was a failed mutiny by Sri Lankan soldiers against British officers, on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands on 8 May 1942, during the...
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Quatre Cocos is a village in the District of Flacq in the eastern part of the island of Mauritius, the main island of the Republic of Mauritius. It is...
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of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands some 900 kilometres (560 mi) to the southwest, to collect timber and supplies for the growing industry on Cocos. In 1897...
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Île aux Cocos (French pronunciation: [il o koko]; "Cocos Island") is a small uninhabited island lying four kilometres west of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean...
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Island (Malay: Pulau Panjang, Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu Panjang), part of the South Keeling Islands, is the capital of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian...
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Cocos Lagoon appears as a small incomplete coral atoll attached to the south-western coast of Guam near the area of the village of Malesso'. It stretches...
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Wolfiporia extensa (redirect from Poria cocos)
Wolfiporia extensa (syn. Poria cocos F.A.Wolf), commonly known as hoelen, poria, tuckahoe, China root, fu ling (茯苓, pīnyīn: fúlíng), or matsuhodo, is...
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Cocos Fire, originally known as the Twin Oaks Fire, was a wildfire that ignited on May 14, 2014 in San Marcos, California, in the hills south of California...
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