Cocos (Keeling) Islands - Gallery

Gallery

  • Sunset over the islands

  • Palm trees on the islands

  • H.M. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip arrive at the Cocos Islands, April 1954

  • Aerial view of Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport – ICAO: YPCC

  • Home island

  • Prince Philip waves goodbye as he and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by John Clunies Ross, return to their ship from Home Island (1954)

  • H.M. Queen Elizabeth at a garden party held in her honour at Home Island

  • Compass stand from the bridge of HMAS Sydney (1912) (which destroyed SMS Emden), installed at Port Macquarie, New South Wales in 1929

  • A broadside view of the wrecked German raider Emden after her encounter with HMAS Sydney near Cocos Island. Seamen, shortly to be rescued by the Sydney, crowd together on the clear end of the vessel. In the foreground several crew members look on from the fore deck of HMAS Sydney

  • Last WWII bombing raid by 99, 356 and 321 Squadrons cancelled on 15 August 1945 by Maj-Genl JT Durrant SA Air Force, Commanding Officer of the Cocos Islands watched by Wing Commander "Sandy" Webster, 99 Squadron C.O.,Squadron Leader Les Evans, 356 Squadron acting C.O. and Lt Cmdr W Van Prooijen, 321 C.O.

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