Cocos (Keeling) Islands Shire chief executive Frank Mills said there was no space to take any more waste. "In one word, it's a nightmare," Mr Mills said. Dump sites on Home and West Island.

The Cocos Islands are part of the low-lying island nations that are already forced to contemplate their future. Australia, one of the main emitters of greenhouse gases, ...

While the Cocos (Keeling) Islands are about to mark the 40th anniversary of a vote to integrate with Australia, longstanding issues of inequality make the milestone far from celebratory.

The Cocos Islands were discovered by Captain William Keeling of the East India Company in 1609 and weren't properly settled until Scottish trader John Clunies-Ross and merchant Alexander Hare ...

Bound for Ceylon after an exhausting three-month-long visit to Australia and New Zealand. Britain's globe-girdling Queen Elizabeth last week stopped to pay a brief call on one of her quietest ...

The Cocos Keeling Islands make up barely 6 square miles in the Indian Ocean. It's a good place to measure debris because almost no one lives there. Scientists were flabbergasted by what they found.

The Cocos are relatively new — “there wouldn’t have been much here when Jesus was walking,” I’m told — but parrotfish have been busy since, pooing enough coral sand for 27 islands.

The Cocos Islands, a cluster of coral cays in the Indian Ocean, have one tin-roofed pub, which also serves as an airport departure lounge and cyclone shelter. In recent days it has acquired yet ...

If you are planning to travel to Cocos Islands or any other city in Cocos (Keeling) Islands, this airport locator will be a very useful tool. This page gives complete information about the Cocos ...

Cocos Island National Park, located 550 km off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is the only island in the tropical eastern Pacific with a tropical rainforest. Its position as the first point of ...