He discovered the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in 1609 as he was going home from Java to England.

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

24. Rising sealevels pose a severe threat to the long term existence of many low lying atolls such as the Cocos and Keeling Islands, Kiribati, Maldives, Tokelau and Tuvalu, and some islands of Tonga and the Caribbean.

Adding cocos to government bonds will require solving a host of technical problems.

Contingent convertible bonds, or cocos, have been proposed as a solution to this problem.

There would be worries that adding cocos to sovereign bonds might raise governments borrowing costs.

In fact, the success of banks in issuing cocos suggests that investors do have the appetite for them.

The Treasure of Lima is a supposed buried treasure on Cocos Island in the Pacific left there by pirates.

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It is in area and contains the largest settlement of the territory, Bantam, with a population of about 500 Cocos Malay people.

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

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