Keeling
or COCOS, ISLANDS, a group of about 20 small coral atolls in the Indian Ocean, lat. 12° S., and about 500 miles S. W. of Java; pop. (1917) 819. They are covered with cocoanut Captain is stu iden reaf In 1857.
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