The Cocos Keeling Islands make up barely 6 square miles of land, about 1,300 miles off the northwest coast of Australia. It was a good place to measure plastic waste because almost no one lives there.

Home to roughly 600 people and located about 1,300 miles off the coast of Western Australia, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands are touted as “Australia’s last unspoilt paradise.” But upon further ...

SYDNEY, Australia — The Australian government ... That could include legal action, he added. Many people have been on Cocos Island for three to five generations, and the decision to leave ...

despite being home to around 500 people. The group of mostly uninhabited 27 islands – which are 2,750 km (1,708 miles) from Perth – are marketed to tourists as “Australia’s last unspoilt ...

Plastic debris washed up on a beach on Cocos Islands, Australia. University of Tasmania via AFP/Getty Images Scientists believe currents coming from several directions carry the plastic to the ...

“I did not know anything was wrong on the island until I came to Australia,” she ... Bilda wants people to understand that Christmas and Cocos Islands have their own distinct cuisine.

About 600 locals live on two of the 27 islands that make up Cocos ... the Cocos Malay people were promised a lot of things when they voted to assimilate to Australia but not many of those have ...

Virgin Australia flies to the Cocos Islands direct from Perth or via Christmas ... which can hold up to 12 people from a single visiting party. The local residents are of the winged kind ...

Cocos is a small island in the Indian Ocean between Western Australia and the Philippines. International telegraph cables linking the Far East, China, Australia, Africa and Porthcurno were ...