Access to this island is only allowed with permission from Parks Australia. Finally, there's North Keeling Island, a national park approximately 50 km north of the other islands. It includes a beach that's been identified as the best beach in Australia. Direction Island, a true island paradise, is connected by ferry every Saturday. Horsburgh Island and South Island are among the larger uninhabited islands. The other islands in the archipelago are uninhabited. The largest village is Bantam on Home Island with a population of around 448 (2021), most of whom follow Sunni Islam and speak the Cocos dialect of the Malay language. It is mostly an English-speaking area with the most tourist facilities, a clinic and an airstrip. West Island is the capital of the territory with about 120 inhabitants. There are two inhabited islands in the group, West Island and Home Island. The people who live on the Cocos Islands are mostly the ethnic Cocos Malay people, who their ancestors are from either Peninsular Malaysia, Indonesia, parts of Southern Africa and New Guinea and they were brought over as slaves or convicts and since 2019, they have been seeking approval for "Indigenous Status". Small local gardens and fishing contribute to the food supply, but additional food and most other necessities must be imported from Australia. Grown throughout the islands, coconuts are the sole cash crop. The population on the two inhabited islands generally is split between the ethnic Europeans on West Island and the ethnic Malays on Home Island although the Malay population is significantly larger than the European. Annexed by the UK in 1857, the archipelago was administered from Ceylon and then later the Colony of Singapore before the territory was transferred to the Australian Government from the Colony of Singapore in 1955. Captain William Keeling discovered the islands in 1609, but they remained uninhabited until the 19th century. The Cocos Islands are 1.5 hours behind Western Australia Time and 3.5 hours behind Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) on standard time they do not observe daylight saving time.
The Cocos Islands lie approximately 12° south and 96.5° east, locating the islands in the humid tropical zone. The islands are generally considered to be the southernmost point of Asia. The Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Cocos Malay: Pulu Kokos (Keeling), Malay Wilayah Kepulauan Cocos (Keeling)) or simply Cocos Islands or Keeling Islands are a chain of islands in two adjacent atolls, in the middle of the Indian Ocean some 2,750 km northwest of Perth, and around 900 km west-southwest of Christmas Island. For the island in Costa Rica, see Cocos Island National Park.
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