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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Cocos Island National Park' has mentioned 'Island' in the following places:
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| An island designated as a National Park off the shore of Costa Rica | WIKI |
| Cocos Island (Spanish: Isla del Coco) is an island in the Pacific Ocean administered by Costa Rica, approximately 550xc2xa0km (342xc2xa0mi; 297xc2xa0nmi) southwest of the Costa Rican mainland. | WIKI |
| [4][5] With an area of approximately 23.85xc2xa0km2 (9.21xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi), the island is more or less rectangular in shape. | WIKI |
| [6] Because of the unique ecology of the island and its surrounding waters, Cocos Island National Park became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. | WIKI |
| [10] Popular dive spots around the island are Bajo Alcyone (hammerhead sharks), Manuelina Garden (coral garden) and Dos Amigos Grande (natural underwater arch formation). | WIKI |
| [12] Famous oceanographer Jacques Cousteau visited the island several times and in 1994 called it "the most beautiful island in the world". | WIKI |
| Access by civilians is very limited; tourists and ship crew members are allowed ashore only with permission of island rangers, and are not permitted to camp, stay overnight or collect any flora, fauna or minerals from the island. | WIKI |
| The island is also very popular in pirate lore. | WIKI |
| Cocos Island is an oceanic island of both volcanic and tectonic origin. | WIKI |
| It is the only emergent island of the Cocos Plate, one of the minor tectonic plates. | WIKI |
| The island is approximately rectangular in shape, measuring about 8xc2xa0km xc3x97xc2xa03xc2xa0km (5xc2xa0mi xc3x97xc2xa02xc2xa0mi) with a perimeter of around 23.3xc2xa0km (14.5xc2xa0mi). | WIKI |
| [15] In spite of its mountainous character, there are flatter areas between 200xe2x80x93260xc2xa0m (660xe2x80x93850xc2xa0ft) in elevation in the center of the island, which are said to be a transitional stage of the geomorphological cycle of V-shaped valleys. | WIKI |
| Sheer, 90-metre (300xc2xa0ft) cliffs ring much of the island, preventing convenient access except at a few beaches; the easiest point of entry is at Chatham Bay. | WIKI |
| [18] The mountainous landscape and the tropical climate combine to create over 200 waterfalls throughout the island. | WIKI |
| The islandxe2x80x99s soils are classified as entisols, which are highly acidic and would be easily eroded by the islandxe2x80x99s high rainfall on the steep slopes were it not for the dense forest coverage. | WIKI |
| [20] Numerous oceanic currents from the central Pacific Ocean, particularly the North Equatorial Countercurrent, converge on the island and also have an important influence. | WIKI |
| The island has a tropical rainforest climate (Kxc3xb6ppen: Af). | WIKI |
| It is the only oceanic island in the eastern Pacific region with such rain forests and their characteristic types of flora and fauna. | WIKI |
| The island was never linked to a continent, so the flora and fauna arrived via long-distance dispersal from the Americas, and the island therefore has a high proportion of endemic species. | WIKI |
| The island has 235 known species of flowering plants, of which 70 are endemic. | WIKI |
| A good comprehensive study on the flora of the island is provided in the journal Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. | WIKI |
| The island has three main plant communities. | WIKI |
| The general vegetation of Cocos Island has greatly changed since the island was first named and described by Europeans. | WIKI |
| Captain Wafer, who visited the island in 1685 and whose name was given to the landing place, describes extensive coconut groves extending inland into the interior of the island. | WIKI |
| The island has over 400 known species of insects, of which 65 (16%) are endemic. | WIKI |
| Two species of lizard are found on the island, an anole (Anolis townsendii) and a gecko (Sphaerodactylus pacificus); both are endemic. | WIKI |
| The island and neighboring rocks are home to large nesting colonies of migratory seabirds, including the brown booby (Sula leucogaster), red-footed booby (Sula sula), great frigatebird (Fregata minor), white tern (Gygis alba) and brown noddy (Anous stolidus). | WIKI |
| Seven species of land birds inhabit the island, including three endemics: the Cocos cuckoo (Coccyzus ferrugineus), Cocos flycatcher (Nesotriccus ridgwayi) and Cocos finch (Pinaroloxias inornata). | WIKI |
| [26] The island has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International. | WIKI |
| The island has no native land mammal species, though five inhabit the island in modern times: pigs, deer, goats, cats, and rats, all of which were introduced by humans. | WIKI |
| The island's largely unperturbed habitats are, nonetheless, under growing human pressure. | WIKI |
| [33] Growing local and worldwide demand for tuna, shark fin soup and other seafood is threatening the island's fragile ecosystems. | WIKI |
| [35] The government has shown some willingness to protect the island's natural riches and prosecute poachers. | WIKI |
| In his Historia general y natural de las Indias (1535, expanded in 1851 from his previously unpublished papers),[41] Gonzalo Fernxc3xa1ndez de Oviedo y Valdxc3xa9s discusses the discovery of the island by his contemporary, Spanish navigator Juan de Cabezas (also known as Juan de Grado), in 1526. | WIKI |
| In October 1863, the ship Adelante marooned 426 Tongan former slaves on the island when it was discovered that they had contracted smallpox and were a danger to her crew. | WIKI |
| As a district, the island has the postal code of 60110. | WIKI |
| The island's 33 residents, all of them Costa Rican park rangers, were allowed to vote for the first time in Costa Rica's February 5, 2006, election. | WIKI |
| However, the rangers are not considered permanent residents of the district, therefore the census data considers the island to be uninhabited. | WIKI |
| The first claims of treasure buried on the island came from a woman named Mary Welch, who claimed that 350 tons of gold (about $16 billion in today's money) raided from Spanish galleons had been buried on the island by Captain Bennett Graham, a naval officer who had become a pirate in 1818. | WIKI |
| On her release, she returned to the island with an expedition but had no success in finding anything, as the points of reference in the chart had disappeared. | WIKI |
| Another pirate supposed to have buried treasure on the island was the Portuguese Benito Bonito, who began terrorizing the west coast of the Americas around 1818. | WIKI |
| Perhaps the best-known of the treasure legends tied to the island is that of the fabled Treasure of Lima. | WIKI |
| Hundreds of attempts to find treasure on the island have failed. | WIKI |
| [51][52] German adventurer August Gissler lived on the island for most of the period from 1889 until 1908, hunting the treasure with the small success of finding a few gold coins. | WIKI |
| An art project called Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition, where a container with artwork by different artists was buried in a secret location, took place on the island in 2014. | WIKI |
| The book Desert Island[53] proposed the highly detailed theory that Daniel Defoe used the Isla del Coco as an accurate model for his descriptions of the island inhabited by the marooned Robinson Crusoe. | WIKI |
| However, Defoe placed Crusoe's island not in the Pacific, but rather off the coast of Venezuela in the Atlantic Ocean. | WIKI |
| [55] Crusoe's two references to Mexico are against a South American island as well. | WIKI |
| The island itself, xe2x80x9cIsla del Cocoxe2x80x9d, also known as xe2x80x9cTreasure Islandxe2x80x9d, is the only landmark of the vast submarine Cocos Range. | UNESCO |
| With a surface area of 2,400 hectares it supports the only humid tropical forest on an oceanic island in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. | UNESCO |
| Due to its geographical position, the oceanic island of volcanic origin is the first landmark met by the North Equatorial Countercurrent and a point of confluence of other marine currents. | UNESCO |
| The oceanic island, more than 500 kilometers off the continent, is mostly occupied by tropical rainforest and, from around 500 m.a.s.l. | UNESCO |
| The geographic location at the meeting point of the North Equatorial Countercurrent with other major marine currents and the ecological interactions between a remote island and the surrounding marine ecosystems are of major scientific importance. | UNESCO |
| The currents and the island affect the movements and distribution of the many migratory marine species aggregating for feeding and reproduction in the waters around the island. | UNESCO |
| The islets and rocks around the main island are reported to also serve as important cleaning stations, i.e. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (x): The small island supports the only tropical forest ecosystem located on an oceanic island within the Tropical Eastern Pacific. | UNESCO |
| Smaller satellite rocks around the island support nesting and resting habitats for numerous migratory and resident bird species. | UNESCO |
| Attempts to settle the island include a brief episode of running a prison, but eventually all such attempts have been unsuccessful. | UNESCO |
| While no mammals originally existed on the island, deer, wild boar, cats and rats have been introduced with complex effects on the ecosystems, as well-documented from small island settings around the globe. | UNESCO |
| Continuous monitoring and management are needed to eradicate alien invasive species to the degree possible and to prevent new invasions through and strict and enforced protocols for all visitors to the island. | UNESCO |
| Tourism activities around the island, mostly recreational diving, likewise require adequate monitoring and control to prevent disturbance in the highly localised areas of major aggregations of fish, as well as littering and other pollution caused by passing vessels and yachts. | UNESCO |