Pulu Keeling National Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
island in Indian Ocean in Australian territorial waters
About Pulu Keeling National Park
The park was established on 12 December 1995, but the area has been protected since 1986, when the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Cocos Malay people agreed to restrict and sustainably manage any further hunting on North Keeling. Three years later in 1989, Cyclone John devastated the red-footed booby colony on North Keeling and legal hunting ceased to allow the population to recover. However, since the park was established, no legal hunting has taken place. The landscape of this park is mostly a low-lying, flat, forested island. Along with the Cocos Islands, Pulu Keeling National Park is located on an approximately 5000-metre high submarine volcanoes known as Cocos Rise. They are part of a ridge that extends toChristmas Island. The atoll is connected to a plateau tha
Pulu Keeling National Park Travel Guide Sections
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