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00:00 Cocos Islands The Cocos Islands are a remote territory
00:04 of Australia in the Indian Ocean.
00:06 In this video, we are going to tell you some shocking and breathtaking facts about Cocos
00:11 Islands.
00:12 So let's start.
00:15 Number 6 The islands are inhabited by a small society
00:18 of about 600 Malays.
00:20 In 1826, it is believed that Cocos Malays emigrated mainly from Malaysia and Indonesia
00:26 as slave and harem members of English explorer Alexander Hare.
00:30 There are 27 islands that make up Cocos or Neeling Islands, but only two of those islands
00:36 are inhabited, West Island and Home Island.
00:41 Number 5 Australia's takeover During this time, the Clooney-Schross family
00:47 still rode by the islands as the original settlers.
00:50 On 23 November 1955, the Cocos Islands were officially transferred from the United Kingdom's
00:56 colony of Singapore to the Commonwealth of Australia.
00:59 In 1970, Australia's government became dissatisfied with the Clooney-Schross family's feudal
01:05 style of rule over the islands.
01:07 So in 1978, the family was forced to sell the islands to Australia for $6.25 million.
01:17 Number 4 Cocos Malay's cultural heritage is a blend
01:21 of influences from Asia, Scotland and Australia.
01:24 Apart from practising Malay traditions, a hint of colonial culture still remains to
01:29 this day, such as Scottish dance performed by the Cocos community primarily at weddings,
01:34 as you can see in this video.
01:49 Number 3 Pink Stumps Day Cocos Keeling Island Pink Stumps Day, the
01:55 McGrath Foundation raises money to place McGrath Breast Care nurses in communities across Australia.
02:01 People enjoy at the coast of the beach and play cricket.
02:04 It is also a very famous destination for people to get engaged and married.
02:12 Number 2 The island gets its name from the abundance
02:15 of coconut trees that line its coast.
02:18 Cocos refer to the coconut trees, while Keeling comes from the name William Keeling.
02:22 The man who discovered the island back in 1609.
02:26 Cocos Island remained completely uninhabited until 1827 when a Scottish merchant named
02:32 John Clooney-Schross brought in Malays to work his copra plantation.
02:36 The Scottish Clooney-Schross family then ruled the island for over 150 years.
02:45 Number 1 The most shocking fact about this island
02:48 is that on the beaches of the tiny Cocos Keeling Islands, population 600, marine scientists
02:54 found that 9,77,000 shoes and 3,73,000 toothbrushes.
03:00 That's the calculation of a paper published in Scientific Reports Thursday.
03:04 Its findings suggest that the world has drastically underestimated islands such as these like
03:08 canneries in the coal mines, and it's increasingly urgent that we act on the warming leeks that
03:14 are given to us.
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