Cocos (Keeling) Islands
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The Cocos Islands, officially the Territory of Cocos Islands, are an Australian external territory located in the Indian Ocean, comprising a small archipelago approximately midway between Australia an
Home Island Beach
A landing party from the German Navy cruiser Emden leaves the Cocos (Keeling) Islands via this jetty on Direction Island on 9 November 1914.
Aerial view of Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport (ICAO code: YPCC).
Home Island
Home Island
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Home Island is the most populous of only two permanently-inhabited islands of the 26 islands of the South Keeling Islands of the Cocos Islands, an Australian external territory in the central-eastern
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
…the latter of which is still a common short name. The territory consists of two atolls made up of 27 coral islands, of which only two – West Island and Home Island – are inhabited. The population of around 600 people consists mainly of Cocos Malays, who mostly practise Sunni Islam and speak a dialect of Malay as…
Home Island Mosque