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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The Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu Kokos [Keeling]), officially the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands (/ˈkoʊkəs/; Cocos Islands Malay:...
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport (Cocos Islands Malay: Lapangan Terbang Pulu Koko (Keeling)) (IATA: CCK, ICAO: YPCC) is an airport serving the Cocos (Keeling)...
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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 the...
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West Island (Malay: Pulau Panjang, Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu Panjang), part of the South Keeling Islands, is the capital of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an...
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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 may refer to: Cocos, Bahia, Brazil Cocos, Quebradillas, Puerto Rico, a barrio Cocos Island (disambiguation) Cocos (Keeling) Islands, a territory...
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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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Cocos Island (Chamorro: Islan Dåno) is an island 1 mile (1.6 km) off the southern tip of the United States territory of Guam, located within the Merizo...
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a minor sport in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. The Cocos (Keeling) Islands national football team has competed in the Inter-Island Cup. In 2015, a Swiss...
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Clunies-Ross family (redirect from King of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, a small archipelago in the Indian Ocean. From 1827 to 1978, the family ruled the previously uninhabited islands as a private...
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Ceylon in World War II (section Cocos Islands Mutiny)
Party, soldiers of the on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands mutinied on the night, intending to hand the islands over to the Japanese. The mutiny was...
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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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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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islands of the 26 islands of the South Keeling Islands of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian external territory in the central-eastern Indian...
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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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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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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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Marquesas Islands Northern Polynesia The Hawaiian Islands Oceanic islands of the Eastern Pacific The Revillagigedo Islands Cocos Island and Malpelo Island Clipperton...
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of Cocos (Keeling) Islands is a local government area which manages local affairs on the Australian external territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands (12°07′S...
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adventurer and treasure hunter who, with brief interruptions, lived on Cocos Island (Costa Rica) from 1889 until 1908. Gissler's aim was to find the Golden...
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noun: Cocos Islander(s) adjective: Cocos Islander Europeans Cocos Malays Sunni Islam 80% Other 20% Malay (Cocos dialect) English Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cocos...
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another name for St. Martin's Island, Bangladesh Cocos Island (disambiguation) Aldabra, coral atoll containing the islands of North Coconut and South Coconut...
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decided to attack the communications station at Direction Island, in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, to hamper Allied communications and frustrate the search...
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family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is endemic to Cocos Island off Costa Rica. The Cocos tyrannulet is treated as a monotypic species. However, a...
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Direction Island is located in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands group. It is the northeasternmost of the South Keeling Islands. A slipway and tank associated...
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been captured in 1816 by pirates and buried on Cocos Island 2] August Gissler who lived on Cocos Island from 1889 to 1908; his quest for treasure was also...
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being Cocos Island). In early Spanish records it is called "Zarpana"; the name Rota may have come from the Spaniards possibly naming the island after...
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Scouts Australia (redirect from Scouting in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
Australian Indian Ocean Territories of: Christmas Island[citation needed] Cocos (Keeling) Islands[citation needed] Two Scout troops in Singapore are...
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Oceania (section Pacific Islands)
Desventuradas Islands, Easter Island, the Galápagos Islands, Guadalupe Island, the Juan Fernández Islands, the Revillagigedo Islands and Salas y Gómez. Cocos Island...
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