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Coral Sea Islands
| Location |
Coral Sea, NE of Australia |
| Latitude and longitude |
18 00 S, 152 00 E |
| Sovereignty |
Australia |
| Political status notes |
Officially, "Coral Sea Islands Territory" |
| Population |
inhabited by meteorological personnel only |
| Land area in square kilometers |
3 |
| Capital |
Administered from Canberra |
Fundamental legal document(s) online
|
| Coral
Sea Islands Act 1969, as amended (Australia), from the
Australasian Legal Information Institute |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Australian Law Reform Commission, External
Territories |
| Coral
Sea Islands General Information, from the Government of Australia’s
Department of Transport and Regional Services |
| Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve,
from the Australian Government's Environment Australia pages |
| Dependencies
and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of the Geographer and
Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of
State, Washington, D.C. |
| Lihou Reef National Nature Reserve,
from the Australian Government's Environment Australia pages |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
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