Few tropical archipelagos are quite as beautiful, remote and appealingly quirky as the Cocos Islands, said Ruaridh Nicoll in the Financial Times (FT). Isolated in the Indian Ocean 660 miles south ...

Many island territories will be affected by this change, including the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean. Therefore, the government of Australia plans to relocate hundreds of inhabitants of these ...

Light-up fish and ancient volcanic structures are among the discoveries of a new expedition to map the remote Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean. When you purchase through links on our site ...

The Cocos Islands, population 600 ... a key U.S. logistics hub in the Indian Ocean and a launch point for bombing missions during the Afghan war. The Cocos atoll itself offers good weather ...

A study published by the University of WA last year found the Cocos (Keeling) Islands were among the most heavily affected by beached waste in the Indian Ocean. But the Cocos community isn't ...

One night in 1889, the Phaeton caught fire and drifted across the lagoon of a remote Indian Ocean atoll ... the only way to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands is a twice-weekly Virgin flight out ...

Researchers have returned from a 35-day expedition discovering deep-sea creatures in the Indian Ocean These include a hermaphrodite lizard fish, previously unknown blind eel and batfish that ...

The private Ross realm embraces a minuscule archipelago (a score or more coral islets), lying in the vastness of the Indian Ocean midway between Australia and Ceylon. The Cocos Islands have ...

The Cocos Islands, with a population of 600 ... Defence Force as key to its maritime surveillance operations in the Indian Ocean, where China is increasing submarine activity.

to explore the deep seas surrounding a new marine park in the Indian Ocean. Led by the Museums Victoria Research Institute, dozens of scientists mapped the ocean floor of Cocos (Keeling) Islands ...

See zanzibar.com The Indian Ocean stretches from Australia to ... One of its minnows is the Australian external territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands — "Cocos" for short — a tiny coral atoll ...