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The Southern Eye: How Australia’s Cocos Islands are fixing India’s naval blind spot

May 10, 2026 by Shiwangi Priya
Cocos Islands Geopolitics: Map showing the strategic location of Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean near the Sunda and Lombok straits.

Look at a map of the Indian Ocean. The eye naturally drifts to the known chokepoints—the Strait of Malacca, the Gulf of Aden, or the…

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