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A waterfall at Wafer Bay, Cocos Island Wafer Bay sunset Cabins for park rangers made by volunteers under the technical direction of architect Ibo Bonilla Cliffs known as "The Moai" Genius River bridge, made with marine debris by Tico artist "Pancho" Cocos Island is an oceanic island of both volcanic and tectonic origin.
The west side is public land, part of the Territorial Park System. Ferries run to Malesso'. During the Spanish times, the island was owned by Don Ignacio Mendiola Dela Cruz (Tu'an). In the late 1920s, the US Government acquired two thirds of the island via eminent domain. In the mid-1930s, Don Ignacio sold the remaining third to a businessman ...
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The Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu Kokos [Keeling]), officially the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands (/ ˈ k oʊ k ə s /; [5] [6] Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu Kokos [Keeling]), are an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean, comprising a small archipelago approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka and relatively close to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
North Keeling is the uppermost of the islands in the group North Keeling Island. North Keeling is a small, uninhabited coral atoll, approximately 1.2 square kilometres (0.46 sq mi) in area, about 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of Horsburgh Island. It is the northernmost atoll and island of the Australian territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands ...
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Cocos Island National Park Puntarenas: 1997 820bis; ix, x (natural) The island, around 550 kilometres (340 mi) off the mainland, is located at the meeting point of the Equatorial Counter Current and other currents. It supports the only tropical rainforest on an oceanic island in the eastern Pacific and is home to several endemic species ...
Of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, only North Keeling Island has significant forest, the other islands having mostly been converted to agricultural uses. [1] North Keeling Island is 900 km southwest of Christmas Island. The Cocos Islands are also built on submerged seamounts, but the surface is limited to a low-lying coral atoll.