Cocos in a sentence

In between bites of eggs Benedict, genome guru Craig Venter paused recently to share a sobering lesson he learned in the dreamy waters of Cocos Island in the tropical Pacific.

Melgar adds that when the oceanic Cocos plate first formed at a fiery mid-ocean trench, its cooling pattern created little hills and valleys in its rock.

Mr Morrison said the group of asylum seekers already returned to Sri Lanka were intercepted on a boat west of the Cocos Islands.

The survey yielded detailed 3D images of the Costa Rican subduction zone, where the Cocos plate sinks and slides under the Caribbean plate.

After 1952, the airport at Cocos Islands was a stop for airline flights between Australia and South Africa, and Qantas and South African Airways stopped there to refuel.

All about the "coconut palm" (Cocos nucifera) (2nd edition).

A local radio station, 6CKI – Voice of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, is staffed by community volunteers and provides some local content.

A media release at the end of October 1958 by the Minister for Territories, Mr. Hasluck, commended Mr. Hull's three years of service on Cocos.

A reasonably reliable GSM mobile phone network (number range +61 406 xxx), run by CiiA (Christmas Island Internet Association), operates on Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Between April 21 to 23, 1616 they moored at the Northern Tongan islands "Cocos Island" ( Tafahi ) and "Traitors Island" ( Niuatoputapu ), respectively.

Education There is a school in the archipelago, Cocos Islands District High School, with campuses located on West Island (Kindergarten to Year 10), and the other on Home Island (Kindergarten to Year 6).

Extensive preparations were undertaken by the government of Australia to prepare the Cocos Malays to vote in their referendum of self-determination.

Geography The Cocos (Keeling) Islands consist of two flat, low-lying coral atolls with an area of convert, convert of coastline, a highest elevation of convert and thickly covered with coconut palms and other vegetation.

He became president of the Association corporative des étudiants en droit, an association of law students whose main occupation was to engage in street brawls against the "Cocos" ( communists ).

However, some members of the Clunies-Ross family still live on the Cocos.

However, this was dropped and all CoCos sold as Radio Shack computers were called TRS-80 in spite of the processor change.

In 1968, the official secretary was re-titled an administrator and, since 1997, Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands together are called the Australian Indian Ocean Territories and share a single administrator resident on Christmas Island.

In 1974, Ken Mullen wrote a small book Cocos Keeling, the islands time forgot (1974).

In 1983, the Australian government reneged on this agreement, and told John Clunies-Ross that he should leave the Cocos.

Media The Cocos (Keeling) Islands have access to a range of modern communication services.