Keeling Islands

As no vessel had arrived bound for that port, I determined to make an excursion into the interior of the island, accompanied by Mr. Ross, an Englishman born in the Keeling Islands, and now employed by the

The Malay Archipelago 2004

’ The Reverend Professor Henslow has published a list of the plants collected by me at the Keeling Islands; and the Reverend J.M. Berkeley has described my cryptogamic plants.

Preface 1909

Accordingly, I steered higher to windward, allowing twenty miles a day while this went on, for change of current; and it was not too much, for on that course I made the Keeling Islands right ahead.

Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877

It afterward split a coral patch in two at the Keeling Islands, and did not receive a blemish.

Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877

April the Keeling Islands furnished much of the material for the future book on coral reefs, the essence of which is, however, included in the

Life of Charles Darwin 1870

Zealand, Dec. 1835; Port Jackson, Jan. 1836; Tasmania, Feb.; the Keeling Islands, April; the homeward journey; Falmouth reached, Oct. 2, 1836; Capt.

Life of Charles Darwin 1870

As no vessel had arrived bound for that port, I determined to make an excursion into the interior of the island, accompanied by Mr. Ross, an Englishman born in the Keeling Islands, and now employed by the Dutch Government to settle the affairs of a missionary who had unfortunately become bankrupt here.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

"Then send and hunt up Jim Sloper at once, for we sail this afternoon for the Keeling Islands."

Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata 1859

Arrived at the Keeling Islands, Captain Roy was received, as usual, with acclamations of joy, but he found that he was by no means as well fitted to act the part of a diplomatist as he was to sail a ship.

Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata 1859

Seated on a log under a palm-tree in Batavia, on that momentous morning of the 27th, was a sailor who had been left behind sick by Captain Roy when he went on his rather Quixotic trip to the Keeling Islands.

Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata 1859