Home Island
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, Also called Home Iceland Pulu Selma, is one of the numerous Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands South part of the atoll. The 0.95 km ² large island of Australia in the Indian Ocean is located about 2768 kilometers north-west of Perth, 3685 kilometers west of Darwin, 900 km south-west of Christmas Island and about 1,000 km south-west of Java and Sumatra. On the island lies Bantam, the largest settlement of the Cocos Islands, in according to official figures 466 people.
History
The South Keeling Islands were first settled in 1826 by the slave traders and businessman Alexander Hare with 100 Malays, including his harem. John Clunies -Ross moved to 1827 Home Iceland with 40 people, which brought Ross against their will there. He installed an authoritarian social and political system. On 22 December 1837, was an unsuccessful revolt by Malays against this system. Then put John Clunies - Ross, the king called himself I. Ross, an agreement by which forced the people living on the Cocos Malay and bantamesischen and European families in their homes to live and work for him or her to leave the island.
The Clunies -Ross family lived on Home Iceland until 1978. Their workers had to work on the coconut plantations or in their workshops, and also in shops to sell imported goods. Since only the coconut copra and coconut oil products were produced for export to the islands, other products had to be imported.
Due to the remote location of the Cocos Islands and other immigration an own ethnic group, the Cocos Malays developed in the course of time. On the islands there was even its own currency. The rule of the family Cluis Ross ended only in 1978 by the Australian government as they the Cocos Islands to the outer area of Australia called out. You bought it for AUD 6.25 million.
Historic monuments
Opened in 1900 the island cemetery was listed, since it represents an example of particular importance for the occupation of the Cocos Islands by the Clunies -Ross family and for the life of the Cocos Malays, which were based on the Cocos Islands Cocos plantations and Kopraproduktion.
An area at the jetty of the island including parts of the local bay and trees are protected monument. Another landmarked complex of Kopraherstellung of 2.5 ha consists of buildings such as storage, sheds, workshops and a copra drying plant, including workshops for the production, transportation and maintenance of boats.
Life
Since the Kopraproduktion 1987 abandoned due to inefficiency, the people trying to live on tourism. In 2009, unemployment was at 65 % of the population high on the Cocos Islands and there was a language conflict to the solution of the Australian Interior Minister Brendan O'Connor traveled all. In order to reduce unemployment a construction project for Muslim tourists Pacific is followed, with the 79 jobs will be created.
The Cocos Malays speak their own language and English as a second language. Malay and English language is taught in school. Islam is the religion of the Cocos Malays.