Cocos Islands
The WORLD GUIDE says:
"The Cocos-Keeling Islands are a far-flung Australian horse-shoe of low-lying coral islets in the Indian Ocean, 2700km north-west of Perth and 900km west of their nearest neighbour the Christmas Islands. First sighted in 1609 by Captain William Keeling, they weren’t settled until the early 19th century when 100 predominantly Malay slaves were brought onto Home Island to work the coconut groves that provide the Islands’ forename and to this day represent their sole export. The slaves soon fled to emancipation on Direction Island to work for a Scotsman, Captain Ross, whose family were granted the Kingdom by Britain’s Queen Victoria ..."
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