【Cocos Islands/Direction Island】
In the morning, depart at 7:00 a.m. West Island Pier and take a 7:30 ferry to direct direction island to direction island, passing home island and stopping at Home Island. Arrived at 8:30, had your own breakfast and lunch on the direction island direction island, where you can swim and snorkel and other activities, we ordered a 5-person glass bottom boat tour. Return at 2:30 PM and return to West Island Pier at 3:00 PM.
The first scene [Cocos Islands / Direction Island] arrives at the uninhabited Direction Island
Direction Island is an uninhabited tourist island, which is the island that was originally discovered in the cocos archipelago. So, call it Direction Island.
It was an island where underwater communication cables were installed in World War I and World War II, and only construction personnel went to the island and lived with soldiers. No family members have ever lived on the island.
The second view [Cocos Islands / Direction Island] The Memorial Pavilion of the Battle of the Cocos Islands on the Direction Islands
The Battle of the Cocos Islands was a naval battle fought in the eastern Indian Ocean in World War I.
When boarding the direction island pier, a pavilion for the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Cocos Islands is built directly opposite the center, and the pavilion is full of historical photos. Outside the pavilion, there is a commemorative plaque for the Centennial Naval Battle on November 9, 2014.
The Australian cruiser Sydney I sank the German light cruiser Emden.
On 9 November 1914, the Australian cruiser HMS Sydney spotted and fired fire near the island in the direction of the Cocos Islands. Four deaths in exchange for a record of 134 deaths, sinking the German light cruiser Emden in one fell swoop. The cruiser sank on north Cocos Island
The third scene [Cocos Islands / Direction Island] A telecommunications cable communication station that pursues the direction of World War I and World War II
Direction Island, also known as Direxion Island, known in Malay as tikus, is a cocos island in the Indian Ocean, northeast of the South Keeling Islands, 25 km southeast of North Keeling Islands, with a land area of 0.34 square kilometers, and the islands are surrounded by white sand beaches and covered with palm trees. Uninhabited.
In 1901, the Indian Ocean telecommunications cable from Darwin to Jakarta and Mauritius passed through the island, which had a communications station and played a role in the First and Second World Wars. The station was closed in 1966 and equipment was transported to the West Island.
The fourth scene [Cocos Islands / Direction Island] The lawless domestic chicken becomes a pheasant
When people bring domestic chickens to the island, just to eat eggs, the people on these islands do not eat chickens. Now, eggs are cheaper. Domestic chickens have become pheasants, and there are no natural enemies of chickens on the island.
The fifth scene [Cocos Islands / Direction Island] take a glass boat out to sea
Five small glass boats to see underwater corals and fish.
Sixth view [Cocos Islands / Direction Island] Mermaid on the water
On the green water of the white sand beach, there is a sleeping beauty floating, like a mermaid.
We yellow people are afraid of the sun, and white people like to sunbathe
