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The Hondius Broadside map of 1590 shows I. de Cocos at 2 degrees and 30 minutes north latitude, while in 1596 Theodore de Bry showed the Galápagos Islands near 6 degrees north of the Equator. Emanuel Bowen , in A Complete system of Geography , Volume II (London, 1747: 586), states that the Galápagos islands stretch 5 degrees north of the Equator.
Cocos Island National Park and two marine management areas are within the ACMC. There are 235 plant species, 400 of insects (65 endemic), 5 of reptiles (2 terrestrial endémic), 3 of marine turtles, 100 of birds (13 resident, 3 endemic), 50 arthropods (7 endemic), 57 of crustaceans, 600 of marine molluscs and 250 of fish.
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 ...
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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 ...
Christmas Island, 350 km southwest of the island of Java, is mostly forested. Of its 135 km2 total area, 85 km2 is protected by the Christmas Island National Park . The island is a limestone cover of an ancient submerged volcano, with eroded terraces and an interior plateau.
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Cocos Lagoon appears as a small incomplete coral atoll attached to the south-western coast of Guam near the area of the village of Malesso'. It stretches about 5.5 km (3.4 mi) east-west and 3.5 km (2.2 mi) north-south, covering an area of more than 10 km 2 (3.9 sq mi).