What the records say
- When
- 1958
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Christmas Island
- Coordinates
- 10.49° S, 105.63° E
- Process
- cession
- Type
- Cession (part yielded to other entity)
- Pop
- 3361
- Area km2
- 135
- Gaining
- Australia
- Losing
- United Kingdom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Christmas Island
External territory of Australia
Christmas Island, officially the Territory of Christmas Island, is an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean comprising the island of the same name. It is about 350 kilometres south of Java and Sumatra and about 1,550 km north-west of the closest point on the Australian mainland. It has an area of 135 square kilometres (52 sq mi).
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation