Light-up fish and ancient volcanic structures are among the discoveries of a new expedition to map the remote Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

QantasLink’s new services to Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands will take off today, marking the first time the national carrier has operated to this unique region.

SYDNEY, Aug 5 (Reuters) - A remote Australian island close to an Indian Ocean chokepoint for Chinese oil shipments is on a list of possible locations for U.S. military construction aimed at detering ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A spiderfish, a blind eel, and a deep-sea batfish are among the incredible creatures recently discovered in a remote part of the Indian Ocean. The ...

On Christmas Island, locals are not surprised if tourists' checked baggage does not arrive with them. Fragile supply chains ...

Few tropical archipelagos are quite as beautiful, remote and appealingly quirky as the Cocos Islands, said Ruaridh Nicoll in the Financial Times (FT). Isolated in the Indian Ocean 660 miles south of ...

The Liberian-registered bulk carrier Madona, carrying cement, sank in rough seas early Monday morning in the Indian Ocean after all its crew were rescued, an Australian search and rescue official said ...

In the turquoise middle of the Indian Ocean, on a remote cluster of atolls once called the Cocos-Keeling Islands, a self-styled king printed his own m.