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Cocos Island is an oceanic island of both volcanic and tectonic origin. It is the only emergent island of the Cocos Plate , one of the minor tectonic plates . Potassium–argon dating established the age of the oldest rocks between 1.91 and 2.44 million years [ 19 ] and it is composed primarily of basalt , which is formed by cooling lava.
Cocos Island (Chamorro: Islan Dåno) is an island 1 mile (1.6 km) off the southern tip of the United States territory of Guam, located within the Merizo Barrier Reef, part of the municipality of Malesso'.
The Cocos Islands Golf Club, located on West Island and established in 1962, is the only golf course in the world that plays across an international airport runway. [100] Unlike Norfolk Island, another external territory of Australia, the Cocos Islands do not participate in the Commonwealth Games or the Pacific Games.
West Island (Malay: Pulau Panjang, Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu Panjang), part of the South Keeling Islands, is the capital of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean. The population is roughly 120, making it the third smallest capital in the world, and consists mainly of Europeans.
Bantam is the largest settlement on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. It is located on Home Island and has a population of about 448, mainly Cocos Malays. Bantam was formerly listed as the capital of Cocos (Keeling) Islands by the European Union. [2]
Since the Cocos Islands are usually included in Asia because they are significantly closer to the coast of Indonesia than Australia, and South Island is the southernmost island in the group, it is the southernmost island of Asia and its southernmost point at 12 ° 12 ′ 32 ″ S, 96 ° 53 ′ 42 ″ E is also the southernmost point of Eurasia.
The geology of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands may be a part of the Galapagos hot spot. The island is the mountaintop of non-seismic, undersea Cocos Ridge. Although the ridge dates to the Miocene, potassium-argon dating and paleomagnetic research indicate that the above-water part of the island formed within the last two million years in the ...
Cocos Islands, also called Ile Aux Cocos, are a group of small islets in the Seychelles archipelago. They can be found 7 km north of La Digue and lies close to La Digue's other neighbours, Félicité Island and the Sisters Islands .