Home Island, also known locally as Pulu Selma, is one of only two permanently inhabited islands of the 26 islands of the Southern Atoll of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian Overseas Territory in the central-eastern Indian Ocean. It is 0.95 km² in area and contains the largest settlement of the territory, Bantam, with a population of about 500 Cocos Malay people.
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“At home one relies on parents; away from home one relies on friends.”
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