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    Cocos Lagoon appears as a small incomplete coral atoll attached to the south-western coast of Guam near the area of the village of Malesso'. It stretches...
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  • Shire of Cocos, a local government area Cocos Lagoon, south of Guam Cocos Plate, a tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean rivers in Romania: Cocoș, a tributary...
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    303 m2 (95.458 acres). It sits atop the southwestern coral reef rim of Cocos Lagoon. The east coast of the island is a day resort with a pool, volleyball...
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    The Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu Kokos [Keeling]), officially the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands (/ˈkoʊkəs/; Cocos Islands...
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    The Battle of Cocos was a single-ship action that occurred on 9 November 1914, after the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney, under the command of John...
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    The Cocos buff-banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi, is an endangered subspecies of the buff-banded rail endemic to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands...
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  • in Merizo's Cocos Lagoon due to major polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination from a former United States Coast Guard station on Cocos Island. (Pacific...
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    findings of major polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination in the Cocos Lagoon on February 20, 2006 and warned people not to eat fish caught there....
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  • is not a native species to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, however, a solitary animal started to inhabit the southern lagoon in 2002. Family: Dugongidae Subfamily:...
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    found in many marshy areas or ponds, and one large Fena Lake reservoir. Cocos Lagoon Fena Reservoir Agana Swamp Assupian Pond Lost Pond LeoPalace Pond 52M...
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  • II, shore of Ylig Point, Yona, GU Malessu' Pillbox, Talona Beach on Cocos Lagoon, Merizo, GU Mana Pillbox, south shore of As Anite Cove, Talofofo, GU...
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    night of August 29, it passed over the south tip of Guam and over the Cocos Lagoon. Early in the day on August 30, the depression slowed its course and...
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    South Island (Malay: Pulau Panjang, Cocos Malay: Pulu Atas) is the southernmost and easternmost island of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands belonging to Australia...
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    Pulu Luar) is one of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Its area is 1.04 square kilometres (0.40 square miles). There is a small lagoon in the interior of the...
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    North Keeling (category Islands of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
    territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. It consists of just one C-shaped island, a nearly closed atoll ring with a small opening into the lagoon, about 50...
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    sonora, Cocos nucifera, and Guettarda speciosa with a Premna obtusifolia edge. When found on the beaches, Calophyllum often extends over the lagoon water...
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    The vascular plant flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands consists of approximately 61 species native to the 22 vegetated islands and about 69 introduced...
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    rocks, lagoons, palm trees, a pine forest, and several small white beaches. The vegetation consists mainly of higher pandanus, coconut, (Cocos nucifera)...
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  • West Island Mosque (category Commonwealth Heritage List places in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
    Mosque is a heritage-listed mosque at Alexander Street, West Island, of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an external territory of Australia. The mosque was added...
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  • Home Island Foreshore (category Commonwealth Heritage List places in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
    to Cocos Malay settlement life providing a shady avenue linking the jetty area to Lot 14. The foreshore strip provides a buffer between the lagoon and...
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    temperature year-round. At the western tip of the island, there is a lagoon called Punta Cocos, where bioluminescence can be observed on dark nights. See the...
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    Malessu' Pillbox Upload image March 4, 1991 (#88001872) Talona Beach on Cocos Lagoon 13°15′39″N 144°40′28″E / 13.260972°N 144.674444°E / 13.260972; 144...
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  • of Guam. It is connected to the mainland by the Merizo Barrier Reef. Cocos Lagoon List of rivers of Guam National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Bendure...
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  • Pillbox U.S. National Register of Historic Places Location Talona Beach on Cocos Lagoon, Malesso', Guam Coordinates 13°15′34″N 144°40′20″E / 13.25944°N 144...
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    The terrestrial fauna of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands is unsurprisingly depauperate, because of the small land area of the islands, their lack of diverse...
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    second largest atoll in the world by total area (including lagoon): Lihou Reef, with a lagoon size of 100 by 30 kilometres (62 by 19 miles) and an area...
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    western coast, which is leeward of the trade winds, and in the reefs along Cocos Lagoon in the south. Non-CHamoru fishermen who were resident on Guam were primarily...
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    Chaetodontidae. It is found in the central Indo-West Pacific region from the Cocos-Keeling Islands and Indonesia in the eastern Indian Ocean to Fiji and Tonga...
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    Anse La Digue Beach Grand L' Anse La Digue Beach Petite Anse Cocos La Digue Beach Patates Cocos La Digue The La Passe village centre Coconut plantation Grande...
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    scattered grasses, and a few clumps of coconut palms (Cocos nucifera). The land ring surrounding the lagoon measures 1.7 square kilometres (0.66 sq mi) in area...
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