Taking place on a campsite in Christmas Island, Australia, the families were cooking their food when dozens of robber crabs — also known as coconut crabs — showed up to their festivities ...

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Most Australians only know three things about Christmas Island: it has lots of crabs, a notorious detention centre and is closer to Bali than our mainland.

Even though it is an Australian territory, Christmas Island exists geographically closer to Java of Indonesia than to ...

Remote polling has opened on Australia's most distant external ... Residents on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island cast their ballots in the NT electorate of Lingiari, one of the ...

Christmas Island, an Australian island in the Indian Ocean, is home to one of the world's coolest natural wonders: the Christmas Island red crab migration. Every year, the island's ~50 million ...

Islands and Christmas Island are casting their votes, but many feel their concerns are being ignored by mainland politicians. These two external territories, part of the Northern Territory's marginal ...

Though in a Northern Territory federal division, Christmas Island follows Western Australia laws. As the federal election nears, a local workers union pushes for equal pay as compared to WA ...

Activists are stepping up the pressure for a Tamil family to be released from detention on Christmas Island and returned to Biloela in Queensland, reports Chris Slee. A desperate rooftop protest by an ...

The death of an escaped detainee sparked what the authorities have carefully labeled a "major disturbance" but not a "riot." The ABC and Fairfax Media have worked with authorities to capture an ...

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