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CommunicationsTelephones - main lines in use World Ranking: 228
287 (1992)
Telephone system
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Connected within Australia's telecommunication system; a local mobile-cellular network is in operation Domestic NAInternational Country code - 61; telephone, telex, and facsimile communications with Australia and elsewhere via satellite; satellite earth station - 1 (Intelsat) (2001) Broadcast media
1 local radio station staffed by community volunteers; broadcasts of several Australian radio and TV stations are received via satellite (2009) Internet country code
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Internet hosts World Ranking: 92
58,130 (2010)
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Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands [ Australia ] (Australia):
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There are 27 coral islands in the group. Captain William KEELING discovered the islands in 1609, but they remained uninhabited until the 19th century. From the 1820s to 1978, members of the CLUNIE-ROSS family controlled the islands and the copra produced from local coconuts. Annexed by the UK in 1857, the Cocos Islands were transferred to the Australian Government in 1955. The population on the two inhabited islands generally is split between the ethnic Europeans on West Island and the ethnic Malays on Home Island.