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This site is linked in failure to the German name: "Kokos Inseln"
Cocos Insel (Keeling) Existent! Liegt westlich von Australien Richtung Sri Lanka im indischen Ozean
Cookinseln Existent! Liegt östlich von Australien, Mitten zw AUS- und Südam.
Kokosinseln Existent! Liegt westlich von Panama + bei Costa Rica
gez. Bernd

User:Ranjran wrote: Consolidated to one page with TOC.

Why? --Shallot 22:26, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)


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[edit] Agriculture

Under "Geography" the article says

"The only natural resource is fish and no agriculture exists on the island."

But later we read:

"Grown throughout the islands, coconuts are the sole cash crop. Copra and fresh coconuts are the major export earners. Small local gardens and fishing contribute to the food supply..."
Most likely an inconsistency in the interpretation of 'agriculture'. I have deleted the first sentence. --Spudtater 16:14, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Government

Here is another issue:

"There also exists a unicameral Cocos (Keeling) Islands Shire Council with seven seats. Elections are held every two years with half the members standing for election."

How can half of seven members stand for election? Is one seat reserved in some way? Molinari 01:41, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The term of office is four years with approximately half the membership retiring each two years. [1]
I've interpreted that as meaning that elections are held every two years. However, the last election I can actually confirm as having happened was in 1993. Facts are somewhat scarce, it seems. --Spudtater 16:14, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)



[edit] Parenthesis

This is one of the few places that have parentheses in their official names. How did this double-name come about? --Menchi 3 July 2005 10:35 (UTC)

My suspicion is as a disambiguator with the other Cocos Island mentioned, but I came here to find an answer, and was disappointed. —Felix the Cassowary (ɑe hɪː jɐ) 11:17, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

The link to www.historyofnations.net/oceania/cocos.html says "In 1805, the British hydrographer, James Horsburgh, called them the Cocos-Keeling Islands in his sailing directory" but doesn't say where the Cocos part came from. I noted and added to the entry that these islands are almost exactly opposite from Cocos Island, Costa Rica (named previously). I presume that Horsburgh was aware of this and gave it this name as a joke, but I have been unable to verify that. I also noticed that there is a Prince Edward Island southeast of Africa that is opposite of its Canadian namesake, although not as accurately. EW 6/13/06

[edit] Cocos Islands Mutiny

See Noel Crusz, The Cocos Islands Mutiny, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, WA, 2001. [2]220.247.242.142 06:18, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox

I started to fill out an infobox for the islands. It is located at Template:Country infobox data Cocos (Keeling) Islands. It is incomplete. Please feel free to fill in the blanks and transfer it to the article page. MJCdetroit 15:21, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted text

An anon user deleted the following:

and subsequently manufactured an identity for locals to whom it gave a degree of autonomy. In the process the position of the Clunies-Ross family has been gradually, and deliberately, undermined.

Should this be restored? LarryQ 17:20, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fauna

I have removed the fauna section, including fauna-specific references, from the article to a new page Fauna of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands as it was making the article somewhat clunky. Maias 02:19, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Straits Settlements and Singapore

"The islands were annexed to the British Empire in 1857. In 1867, their administration was placed under the Straits Settlements, which later became known as Singapore." The wording on this is rather incorrect, as I am from the former straits settlements, but I am not from Singapore. Although the reality is that the Straits settlements were broken up and Crown colony singapore formed, it doesn't mean that they are identical. Stkhoo 08:33, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Referendums of April 6th, 1984 and November 6th, 1999

Please anybody give me a reference on source (on this page) about self-determination referendum of April 6th, 1984 and Republican referendum on Cocos (Keeling) islands. --User:212.98.173.133 13:19 28 July 2007.

[edit] Tsunami

How badly were the island affected by the 2004 Tsunami or anything ensuing? MMetro 05:52, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Not at all. According to the residents of the islands, the tsunami passed by completely unnoticed. Apparently this is because Cocos (Keeling) is an atoll surrounded by deep water, so there's no continental shelf to build up big waves.--Squirmymcphee (talk) 19:20, 28 February 2008 (UTC)