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.

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It is the only accepted species in the genus Cocos .

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

In the middle of the eastern side is a transform boundary with the North American Plate along the San Andreas Fault, and a boundary with the Cocos Plate.

The black striped capuchin was the first non ape primate for which tool use was documented in the wild individuals were observed cracking nuts by placing them on a stone anvil and hitting them with another large stone.

And right on top of the nearest coconut tree, with a hatchet in one hand and a cell phone in the other, was a local toddy tapper, who proceeded to bring down the coconuts for us to drink.

The fastest moving plates are the oceanic plates, with the Cocos Plate advancing at a rate of 75 mm year and the Pacific Plate moving 52 69 mm year.

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.