INTERPRETATION COCOS ISLANDS
Cocos (Keeling) Islands are a territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean, it consist of two atolls and 27 coral islands. They are stategigaly important because of their proximity to the Indian Ocean and China Sea shipping lanes. The USA plans to construct air strips and bases upon the islands although at this point there are no military bases there.
They got their name from the abundance of coconut trees. The population is less than 1K. 80% are Sunni Muslim.
Another CoCos Island is a national park of Costa Rica located about 350 miles from it and is a marine habitat that does not allow inhabitants other than park rangers.
INTERPRETATION IMAGERY
Two islands oceans apart with same names. Both little, but integral to the world-- one for peace one for ecology.
Heard haven, just seeing tropical
