Meanings of cocos islands in English

They landed on the Cocos Islands and were subsequently transferred to Christmas Island.

Virgin Australia flies to the Cocos Islands direct from Perth or via Christmas Island.

KEELING, Cocos Islands, Nov. 12, (Dispatch to The London Daily Chronicle.

The aircraft is now searching the ocean to the north and west of the remote Cocos Islands.

Another, carrying 50 asylum seekers, is also understood to have been intercepted by customs near the Cocos Islands.

Guardian Australia was the only media organisation to witness the asylum seekers' arrival on the Cocos Islands on Sunday.

The boat carrying 13 people was intercepted off the Cocos Islands, a remote Australian territory in the Indian Ocean.

Australia already had two AP-3C Orion aircraft searching, one of them looking north and west of the remote Cocos Islands.

"I should say it is one of the Cocos Islands group," was the reply.

Unlike in other islands' rubbish surveys where the debris had broken down, the plastic on the Cocos islands was still intact.

The most noted of these was the Emden, which was defeated and destroyed by the Australian cruiser Sydney off the Cocos Islands.

On Facebook, residents threw questions at Natasha Griggs, the administrator of the Christmas and Cocos Islands, hoping she could offer more detail.

This probably would not be permitted by the "King of the Cocos Islands" even if they wished to do so.

The great peculiarity of Andaman flora is that, with the exception of the Cocos islands, no cocoanut palms are found in the archipelago.

Tamil asylum seeker children from the group of 153 held aboard an Australian customs vessel for three weeks are helped ashore at the Cocos Islands.

The Cocos Islands had a lower density of plastic than Henderson Island, in the Pitcairn group in the southern Pacific, which Ms Lavers had surveyed.