Eradicating the brown tree snakes that have invaded Cocos Island could set an example for how Guam and the rest of the world could handle invasive species, Diane Vice, Wildlife Supervisor at the ...

A special Coast Guard mission will give officials in Costa Rica’s most remote territory a chance to vote Election Day. Cocos Island — located more than 30 hours by boat off the Pacific coast — has 28 ...

Cocos Island, though, is very much real. Located some 350 miles from Costa Rica’s mainland, it’s widely believed to be the inspiration for Isla Nublar. Costa Rica’s has a love-hate relationship with ...

A mind-boggling 400 million pieces of trash – that's 260 tons – were recently discovered on the beaches of the remote Cocos Keeling Islands, a chain some 1,300 miles northwest of Australia.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30. -- It is believed that by this time the $30,000,000 treasure of Cocos Island is safe on board the British cruiser Amphion.

COCOS ISLAND, THE ONE-MAN EMPIRE OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Share full article. Nov. 20, 1904. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from November 20, 1904 ...

The Cocos Islands have belonged to the Ross dynasty ever since John Clunies-Ross I, Scottish skipper of an East Indiaman, settled there with his family in 1827.

The Cocos Islands — an Australian external territory — lie 2,100km off the coast of Exmouth, and have long been a tropical paradise getaway for international and Australian tourists alike.

NATURE’s Shark Mountain takes viewers on a dive of a lifetime to reveal underwater creatures unlike anywhere else in the world. Some 300 miles off Costa Rica is Cocos Island, a tiny Pacific ...

Chatham Beach on Cocos Island, part of what may have inspired "dinosaur island" in Jurassic World. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Filmmakers shot many of the scenes in Jurassic World and its ...