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Cocos Island National Park tourist information


Cocos Island National Park tourist information

Cocos Island is located in the Eastern Tropical Pacific approximately 300 miles southwest of Cabo Blanco, Costa Rica. A rugged and incredibly beautiful island, today Cocos Island is the most sacred National park in Costa Rica's extensive park system. Please note, this island is sometimes confused with the (or simply Cocos Islands or Keeling Islands) which is in the middle of the Indian Ocean some 2750km north-west of Perth, and 900km west south-west of Christmas Island. The island was annexed by the UK in 1857, and transferred to the Australian Government in 1955. Among Cocos Island's many attributes is a startling degree of biodiversity. This island's world-renowned waters explode with life, including innumerable white tip reef sharks, schooling hammerhead sharks, dolphins, mantas and marbled rays, giant moray eels, sailfish, and of course the occasional whale shark. Other common encounters are large schools of jacks and tuna, silky sharks, silver tip sharks, marlin, Creole fish, green turtles and octopus. On the Island you will encounter a lot of pigs and not much else besides the usual vegetation.

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