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Cocos (Keeling) Islands
The Territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands, is a territory of Australia, located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Christmas Island and approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka.
The territory consists of two atolls and 27 coral islands, of which two, West Island and Home Island, are inhabited with a total population of approximately 600.
==Name==
The islands have been called the ''Cocos Islands'' (from 1622), the ''Keeling Islands'' (from 1703), the ''Cocos–Keeling Islands'' (since James Horsburgh in 1805) and the ''Keeling–Cocos Islands'' (19th century). ''Cocos'' refers to the abundant coconut trees, while ''Keeling'' is William Keeling, reputedly the first European to sight the islands, in 1609.〔 John Clunies-Ross, who sailed there in the ''Borneo'' in 1825, called the group the ''Borneo Coral Isles'', restricting ''Keeling'' to North Keeling, and calling South Keeling "the Cocos properly so called". The form ''Cocos (Keeling) Islands'', attested from 1916, was made official by the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955.〔
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