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{{Infobox dependency
| name = Cocos (Keeling) Islands
| official_name = Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands {{nobold|{{native name|coa|Pulu Kokos (Keeling)}}}} {{nobold|{{native name|ms|Wilayah Kepulauan Cocos (Keeling)}}}}
| settlement_type = [[Australian Indian Ocean Territories|Australian Indian Ocean Territory]] [[States and territories of Australia|External territory of Australia]]
| image_flag = Flag of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.svg
| flag_size = 125px
| flag_link =
| motto = {{native name|coa|"Maju Pulu Kita"|italics=off}} ({{lang-en|"Onward our island"}})
| anthem =
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| song =
| image_map = Australia on the globe (Cocos (Keeling) Islands special) (Southeast Asia centered).svg
| map_alt = Location of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
| map_caption = Location of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (circled in red)
| mapsize = 290px
| subdivision_type = [[Sovereign state]]
| subdivision_name = [[Australia]]
| established_title = Annexed by the [[United Kingdom]]
| established_date = 1857
| established_title2 = Transferred from Singapore to Australia
| established_date2 = 23 November 1955
| official_languages = None
| languages_type = Spoken languages
| languages = {{hlist|[[Cocos Malay|Malay]]|[[English language|English]]{{efn|English does not have [[de jure]] status on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and in Australia, but it is the [[de facto]] language of communication in government.}}}}
| capital = [[West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands|West Island]]
| coordinates = {{Coord|12|11|13|S|96|49|42|E|type:city}}
| largest_settlement_type = village
| largest_settlement = [[Bantam, Cocos (Keeling) Islands|Bantam]] {{small|([[Home Island]])}}
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| government_type = [[Direct rule|Directly administered]] [[dependent territory|dependency]]
| leader_title1 = [[Monarchy of Australia|Monarch]]
| leader_name1 = [[Elizabeth II]]
| leader_title2 = [[Governor-General of Australia|Governor-General]]
| leader_name2 = [[David Hurley]]
| leader_title3 = [[List of administrative heads of Cocos (Keeling) Islands|Administrator]]
| leader_name3 = [[Natasha Griggs]]
| leader_title4 = [[Shire of Cocos|Shire President]]
|leader_name4 = [[Seri Wati Iku]]
| area_km2 = 14
| area_sq_mi = 5.3
| percent_water = 0
| elevation_max_m = 5
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| population_census = 544
| population_census_rank = not ranked
| population_census_year = 2016
| population_density_km2 = 43
| population_density_sq_mi = 112
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| currency = [[Australian dollar]]
| currency_code = AUD
| timezone =
| utc_offset = +06:30
| drives_on =
| calling_code = [[Telephone numbers in Australia|+61 891]]
| postal_code_type = [[Postcodes in Australia#External territories|Postcode]]
| postal_code = WA 6799
| iso_code = [[ISO 3166-2:CC|CC]]
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The '''Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands''' ({{lang-coa|Pulu Kokos (Keeling)}}) is a territory of [[Australia]]. There are two [[atoll]]s and twenty-seven coral islands in the group. The [[island]]s are in the [[Indian Ocean]], about one-half of the way from Australia to [[Sri Lanka]].

== History ==
Captain [[William Keeling]] was the first European to see the islands, in 1609, but they remained uninhabited until the [[19th century|nineteenth century]], when they became a possession of the Clunies-Ross Family. [[slavery|Slaves]] were brought to work the [[coconut]] plantation from [[Indonesia]], the [[Cape of Good Hope]] and East Asia by Alexander Hare who had taken part in [[Stamford Raffles]]' takeover of [[Java]] in 1811. A [[Scottish people|Scottish]] merchant seaman called Captain John Clunies-Ross, who had also served under Raffles in the takeover, set up a compound and Hare's severely mistreated slaves soon escaped to work under better conditions for Clunies-Ross.

On [[November 23]] [[1955]], the islands were transferred to Australian control under the ''Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955''. In the 1970s, Australian government dissatisfaction with the Clunies-Ross feudal style of rule of the island increased. In 1978, Australia forced the family to sell the islands for the sum of AU$6,250,000, using the threat of compulsory purchase. By agreement the family retained ownership of Oceania House, their home on the island. However, in 1983 the Australian government moved to dishonour this agreement, and told the former last ruler, John Clunies-Ross, that he should leave the Cocos. The following year the High Court of Australia ruled that the government could not buy Oceania House. Instead the Australian government ordered that no government business was to be given to his shipping company, an action which contributed to his bankruptcy. John Clunies-Ross lives in exile in Perth, Australia, but his successors still live on the Cocos.

In 2004 there were 629 people living on the Cocos (Keeling) islands. There are about 120 Europeans on West Island and 500 Malays on Home Island. A Cocos dialect of Malay and English are the main languages spoken and 80% of Cocos Islanders are [[Sunni Muslim]]. India does not recognise Anglo annexation of these Cultural Indo-Indian/Indies islands as part of Australia and disputes it's status to counterbalance regional hegemonic sea power. {{fact|date=July 2010}}

== Government ==

The capital of the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands is [[West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands|West Island]] while the largest settlement is the village of Bantam ([[Home Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands|Home Island]]). Governance of the islands is based on the ''Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955'' <ref>{{citeweb|title=Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955|url=http://www.weblaw.edu.au/weblaw/display_resource.phtml?rid=867|access-date=2007-09-09|archive-date=2008-07-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080722153525/http://www.weblaw.edu.au/weblaw/display_resource.phtml?rid=867|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{citeweb|title=Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955|url=http://www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/ActCompilation1.nsf/0/D1D6D0EDD0A339E2CA25714100115B0A?OpenDocument}}</ref>
== Other websites ==
* [http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/arb/399-414/403.pdf Atoll Research Bulletin vol. 403] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060912115745/http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/arb/399-414/403.pdf |date=2006-09-12 }}
* [http://www.cocos-tourism.cc Cocos (Keeling) Islands Tourism website]
* [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ck.html Cocos (Keeling) Islands] entry from the [[CIA World Factbook]]
* [http://www.shire.cc/ Shire of Cocos (Keeling) Islands]
* [http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j34/cocosmutiny.htm Noel Crusz, ''The Cocos Islands mutiny'', Reviewed by: PETER STANLEY, Principal Historian, Australian War Memorial]
* [http://www.historyofnations.net/oceania/cocos.html History of Cocos (Keeling) Islands] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925170637/http://www.historyofnations.net/oceania/cocos.html |date=2012-09-25 }}
* [http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/arb/497-508/505.pdf Areas of individual islets] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060913003708/http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/arb/497-508/505.pdf |date=2006-09-13 }}
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6730047.stm The man who lost a 'coral kingdom']

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