The Territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands, is a territory of Australia, located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Christmas Island and approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka.

Internet .cc is the Internet country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

1955 The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.

Australia has established a base for marines in Darwin and another for unmanned spy planes on the Cocos Islands.

It is the only accepted species in the genus Cocos .

The Cocos Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Central America, named for Cocos Island, which rides upon it.

However, some members of the Clunies Ross family still live on the Cocos.

The Coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the family Arecaceae (palm family).

Geology and landscape Cocos Island is an oceanic island of both volcanic and tectonic origin.

It is the only emergent island of the Cocos Plate, one of the minor tectonic plates.

Distribution and habitat It is found from southern Burma and central India to the south and east to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, peninsular Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, the Riau Archipelago, Sumatra Brunei, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Indonesia down to Java, Bali and Borneo.

The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago the remaining islands constitute the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Spanish Virgin Islands.

The residual Maluku province includes Ambon (the site of the provincial capital) and the other Lease Islands the much larger islands of Seram and Buru the smaller islands lying south and east of Seram the Banda Islands, Gorong Islands, Watubela Islands, Kai Islands and Aru Islands and in the far south the Babar Islands, Damar Islands, Romang, Kisar, the Leti Islands, Tanimbar Islands, and Wetar.

French Polynesia is divided into 5 groups of islands The Society Islands archipelago composed of the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Gambier Islands, the Marquesas Islands and the Austral Islands.

There are two main types of islands continental islands and oceanic islands.

The three main island groupings are the Gilbert Islands, Phoenix Islands, and Line Islands.

E. c. filholi breeds on the Prince Edward Islands, the Crozet Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, Heard Island, Macquarie Island, Campbell Island, the Auckland Islands and the Antipodes Islands.

Floating Islands.

Cayman Islands

Falkland Islands

However, in 1983, the Australian government reneged on this agreement, and told John Clunies Ross that he should leave the Cocos.

In Japanese, the Kuril Islands are known as the Chishima Islands (Kanji , literally, Thousand Islands Archipelago ), also known as the Kuriru Islands (Katakana , literally, Kuril Archipelago ).

Forever Marshall Islands is the national anthem of the Marshall Islands.

The islands are traditionally divided in two geographic regions (with no administrative meaning) Barlavento Islands (windward), the six northern islands and Sotavento Islands (leeward), the four southern ones.

Panama Philippines Singapore Turks and Caicos Islands Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Virgin Islands , British Virgin Islands , US Vanuatu Samoa

Turks Islands The Turks Islands are separated from the Caicos Islands by Turks Island Passage, which is more than deep, The islands form a chain that stretches north south.

Small surrounding islands are also part of various Sicilian provinces the Aeolian Islands (Messina), isle of Ustica (Palermo), Aegadian Islands (Trapani), isle of Pantelleria (Trapani) and Pelagian Islands (Agrigento).

British Virgin Islands

Islands of Isolation

Kerguelen Islands 2.

Crozet Islands 3.

The Virgin Islands of the United States (commonly called the United States Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Virgin Islands, or USVI) are a group of islands in the Caribbean that are an insular area of the United States.

Other islands in the English Channel There are other islands in the English Channel which are not part of the Channel Islands.

The Gilbert Islands ( formerly Kingsmill or King's Mill Islands) are a chain of sixteen atolls and coral islands in the Pacific Ocean.

The Faroe Islands national football team represents the Faroe Islands in association football and is controlled by the Faroe Islands Football Association.

The Solomon Islands national football team is the national team of Solomon Islands and is controlled by the Solomon Islands Football Federation.

Islands There are a number of islands spread all over the city's coastline.

Solomon Islands should not be confused with the Solomon Islands archipelago, which is a collection of Melanesian islands that includes Solomon Islands and Bougainville Island (part of Papua New Guinea), but excludes the nation's outlying islands, such as the Santa Cruz group.

Along with other Pacific Islands, the Marshall Islands were then consolidated into the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands governed by the US.

The Cayman Islands national football team is the national team of the Cayman Islands and is controlled by the Cayman Islands Football Association.

The Cook Islands national football team is the national team of the Cook Islands and is controlled by the Cook Islands Football Association.

Notes See also List of countries by area List of islands (by continent and country) List of islands by name List of islands by population List of islands by highest point List of islands by population density References Most figures are taken from the United Nations Environment Programme list of islands by area.

Almost all of Mexico lies in the North American Plate, with small parts of the Baja California peninsula on the Pacific and Cocos Plates.

Tokelau lies north of the Samoan Islands, Swains Island being the nearest, east of Tuvalu, south of the Phoenix Islands, southwest of the more distant Line Islands, and northwest of the Cook Islands.

Wallis and Futuna Islands