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The Clunies-Ross family were the original settlers of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, a small archipelago in the Indian Ocean. From 1827 to 1978, the family ruled the previously uninhabited islands as a private fiefdom, initially as terra nullius and then later under British (1857–1955) and Australian (1955–1978) sovereignty.
Oceania House is the historic residence of the Clunies-Ross family, who settled the Cocos Islands in 1827 and established its coconut / copra industry. (The Islands were first settled by Alexander Hare in 1826; he left in 1831.) The copra industry was always the main economic activity; it declined in the post- World War II years and ceased in 1987.
Clunies-Ross returned two years later with his wife, children and mother-in-law, and found Hare already established on the island and living with the private harem. A feud grew between the two. [22] Clunies-Ross's eight sailors "began at once the invasion of the new kingdom to take possession of it, women and all". [22]
Margaret Beryl Clunies Ross FAHA (born 24 April 1942) is a medievalist who was until her retirement in 2009 the McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney. Her main research areas are Old Norse - Icelandic Studies and the history of their study ...
For Clunies-Ross, who creates secure spaces for high-profile clients who have “no desire to be a collection of pixels in someone’s photo reel,” privacy starts outside.
Clunies-Ross and his party first visited the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in 1825 but did not settle there until the end of 1827. A former business partner of Clunies-Ross, Alexander Hare, and his party settled on the Islands early in 1827, months before Ross' return, with a party of 40, including many women reputedly taken to the Islands against ...
Description. Home Island Cemetery is at located at Pulu Gangsa, at the northern tip of Home Island (formerly a separate island, now a peninsula of Home Island). [1] Established c. 1900, it is an informally planned cemetery with three to four Clunies-Ross graves on the east side of a central track. On the western side is the cemetery of the ...
The existing Malays and a large number of newly arrived Malay immigrants that Clunies-Ross brought with him were employed to assist with the harvesting of coconuts for copra. People from British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies as well as South Africa and New Guinea were brought in by Hare and by Clunies-Ross as indentured workers, slaves or ...