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The Cocos Islands lie in the Indian Ocean. They are claimed by the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand as the "Cocos (Keeling) Islands" but have functioned as an independent micro-kingdom since 1983. They are not to be confused with the Isla del Coco, also called Cocos Island, in the Pacific Ocean, a Costa Rican island annexed to Colombia in 2001.

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  • Cocos Islands (1983: Doomsday)
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  • The Cocos Islands lie in the Indian Ocean. They are claimed by the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand as the "Cocos (Keeling) Islands" but have functioned as an independent micro-kingdom since 1983. They are not to be confused with the Isla del Coco, also called Cocos Island, in the Pacific Ocean, a Costa Rican island annexed to Colombia in 2001.
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  • The Cocos Islands lie in the Indian Ocean. They are claimed by the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand as the "Cocos (Keeling) Islands" but have functioned as an independent micro-kingdom since 1983. They are not to be confused with the Isla del Coco, also called Cocos Island, in the Pacific Ocean, a Costa Rican island annexed to Colombia in 2001. The Clunies-Ross family from Shetland established a coconut plantation on the uninhabited islands in 1827. Most of the islands' population is descended from workers on the plantation; today approximately 80% of the islanders are Malay-speaking Sunnis. In 1886 Queen Victoria granted the Clunies-Rosses title to the islands in perpetuity, and the family began styling themselves "kings". In 1955 Britain transferred the islands to Australia, though the family still owned the islands and continued to run them nearly as they had before; however, Australia did appoint a Supreme Court to establish and maintain the rule of law and to harmonize the island's law code, mostly derived from Singapore, with that of Australia. Australia continued to slowly end family rule on the Cocos. A UN mission was invited to the islands in 1972. It condemned the Cocos' autocratic power structure. Finally, in 1978 Australia forced John Clunies-Ross to sell the islands, keeping only Oceania House, the family seat. In 1979, a Council was created to govern the territory. As a sign of how discontented the islanders were after 150 years of virtual serfdom, they sent a petition to Canberra in 1980 asking the government "to do whatever is necessary to remove John Clunies-Ross permanently from the Cocos Islands".
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