Capital West Island
Largest village Bantam (Home Island)
Official languages English
Population
628
Currency Dollar
Calling code -61-891

The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also named Cocos Islands & Keeling Islands, is a territory of Australia. There are both atolls by owning 27 coral islands in the group. The islands are settled in the Indian Ocean, about one-half of the path from Australia to Sri Lanka.

There are 27 coral islands in the grouping. Captain William KEELING identified the islands in 1609, but they stayed uninhabited until the 19th century. Took over by the UK in 1857, they were reassigned to the Australian Government in 1955. The people on the 2 inhabited islands generally is split betwixt the cultural Europeans on West Island and the ethnic Malays on Home Island.

The Cocos (Keeling) Islands belong of two flat, low-lying coral atolls using an area of 14.2 square kilometres (5.4 sq. mi), 2.6 kilometers (1.6 mi) of coastline, a top elevation of 5 ms (16 ft) and thickly covered up sustaining coconut palms & extra vegetation.

The clime is pleasant, modified by the southeast trade winds for about nine months of the season and by owning moderate rainfall. Cyclones might happen in the early on months of the year.

North Keeling Island is an atoll consisting of just one C-shaped island, a nearly closed atoll ring with a small gap into the lagoon, about 50 metres (165 ft) wide, on the East side. The island measures 1.1 square kilometres (272 acres) in land region & is uninhabited. The lagoon is almost 0.5 square kilometers (124 acres).

South Keeling Islands is an atoll consisting of 26 single islets making an incomplete atoll ring, by using a entire land area of 13.1 square kilometres (5.1 sq. mi). Lone Home Island & West Island are populated. People from Home Island maintain weekend shacks on the lagoon shoring of South Island & on some of the smaller islands.