Keeling Islands


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Kee·ling Islands

 (kē′lĭng)
See Cocos Islands.
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Keeling Islands

(ˈkiːlɪŋ)
pl n
(Placename) another name for the Cocos Islands
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Co′cos Is′lands

(ˈkoʊ koʊs)
n.pl.
a group of 27 coral islands in the Indian Ocean, SW of Java, administered by Australia. 609; 5.5 sq. mi. (14 sq. km). Also called Keeling Islands.
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The Flora of the Galapagos Archipelago is the subject of a separate memoir by him, in the 'Linnean Transactions.' The Reverend Professor Henslow has published a list of the plants collected by me at the Keeling Islands; and the Reverend J.
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Kevin and Jayne Whelan have just completed a circumnavigation, taking their son James (13) and daughter Alexis (5) on a world trip leaving Sydney in 2011, taking in the Barrier Reef, Indonesia, Christmas Island, Cocos Keeling Islands, Mauritius, La Reunion, Africa, St Helena, Spain and more, through the Panama Canal across the Pacific and back to Sydney.
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