Cocos (Keeling) Islands

The northeasternmost island of the South Keeling Islands, a historic navigational landmark at the entrance to the Cocos lagoon, with Commonwealth Heritage-listed ruins of an early twentieth-century seaplane base.

The cultural and spiritual centre of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, home to the Cocos Malay community and the settlement of Bantam, the most populous place in the territory.

An uninhabited coral islet in the North Keeling group, named after the Scottish hydrographer James Horsburgh, with Second World War-era six-inch coastal defence guns and associated ruins within a marine protected area.

A small uninhabited C-shaped coral atoll and Australia's youngest national park, Pulu Keeling National Park, protecting the only surviving population of the endangered Cocos buff-banded rail.

The southernmost and easternmost island of the Cocos (Keeling) group, an exposed coral islet at the outer edge of the South Keeling atoll ring with significant seabird nesting colonies and clear-water diving.

The administrative capital of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, a small Australian external territory in the eastern Indian Ocean, and the third-smallest capital by population in the world.