Home Island
Home Island is one of only two permanently-inhabited islands of the 26 islands of the South Keeling Islands of the Cocos Islands, an Australian external territory in the central-eastern Indian Ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia
- Also known as: “Clunies Ross”, “Clunies Ross Island”, “Home Island, Other Territories”, “Home Island, Other Territories, Australia”, “New Selma”, “New Selma Island”, and “Pulu Selma”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bantam.
Bantam
Village
Home Island is one of only two permanently-inhabited islands of the 26 islands of the South Keeling Islands of the Cocos Islands, an Australian external territory in the central-eastern Indian Ocean.
Home Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Cocos Islands, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-12.11529° or 12° 6′ 55″ southLongitude
96.89694° or 96° 53′ 49″ eastPopulation
448Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
5MVRVVMW+VQOpenStreetMap ID
way 160030162OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Home Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هوم أيلند”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Хоўм, Какосавыя астравы”
- Belarusian: “Хоўм”
- Catalan: “Home Island”
- Cebuano: “Home Island”
- Chinese: “霍姆岛”
- Croatian: “Home (Kokosovi otoci)”
- Croatian: “Home”
- Dutch: “Home Island”
- Esperanto: “Hejminsulo”
- French: “Home Island”
- German: “Home Island”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Home”
- Italian: “Home Island”
- Japanese: “ホーム島”
- Korean: “홈섬”
- Malay: “Pulau Selma, Kepulauan Cocos Keeling”
- Polish: “Home Island”
- Portuguese: “Home Island”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Home”
- Romanian: “Home Island”
- Russian: “Хоум”
- Slovak: “Home”
- Spanish: “Isla Home”
- Swedish: “Home Island”
- Turkish: “Home Adası”
- Turkish: “Home Island”
- Ukrainian: “Хоум”
- Welsh: “Ynys Gartref”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Shire of Cocos Keeeling and Muslim Cemetery.
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