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.

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

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

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

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It is the only accepted species in the genus Cocos .

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

Other islands are Bolano Island, Buena Vista Island, Cana Island (Panama), Casaya Island, Chapera Island, Chitre Island, Cocos Island (Panama), Espiritu Santo Island (Panama), Galera Island, Gallo Island, Gilbraleon Island, Lampon Island, Marin Island, Mina Island, Mogo Mogo o Pajaro, Pacheca Island, Pachequille Island, Pedro Gonzalez Island, Puerco Island, San Jose Island, Senora Island, Vivenda Island, Vivienda Island and Viveros Island.

With a length (from the top of its head to the tip of its long pointed tail) of about 100 cm (3.3 ft) it is longer than any other species of parrot.

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

Coconuts! You can get killed by a coconut more likely than killed by a shark.

The principal exports of Victoria are vanilla, coconuts, coconut oil, fish and guano.

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.

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).

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.

Goa has more than forty estuarine, eight marine and about ninety riverine islands.

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.

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

Examples are Åland (Finland), Hong Kong (China), and Macau (China).

Cayman Islands

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.

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The reason our hair is brown is that it enabled our monkey ancestors to hide amongst the coconuts.

Some common local ingredients used in cooking are calamondins, coconuts, saba (a kind of short wide plantain), mangoes, milkfish, and fish sauce.

Falkland Islands

British Virgin Islands

Islands of Isolation

When international cotton prices collapsed, planters switched to coffee, cocoa, bananas, and, most successfully, coconuts.

You can see the Islands there are eight islands that pop out of the water.

Staphylococcus aureus is a gram positive coccal bacterium that is a member of the Firmicutes, and is frequently found in the human respiratory tract and on the skin.

Etymology The name (which is occasionally misspelled Macronesia in false analogy with Micronesia) is derived from the Greek words for islands of the fortunate μακάρων νῆσοι makárōn nêsoi , a term used by Ancient Greek geographers for islands to the west of the Straits of Gibraltar.

Wallis and Futuna Islands

Turks and Caicos Islands

There are islands in the sea.

There are islands in the sea.

There were islands in the sea.

Tortola is the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands.

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

The territory is geographically contiguous to the Bahamas, both comprising the Lucayan Archipelago, but is politically a separate entity.

Saint Kitts and Nevis are considered to be geographically part of the Leeward Islands.

Surrounding islands A large number of islands, islets, and rocks hug the coast of Crete.

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

Most of the islands, including the famous Valaam archipelago, Kilpola and Konevets, are situated in the northwest of the lake.

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 ).

However in some islands, mostly Lesser Antilles (such as the British Virgin Islands, US Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, as well as Turks and Caicos Islands) and the Bahamas, most passenger cars are still LHD equipped (despite driving on the left), being imported from the United States or Brazil.