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'King of the Cocos Islands' was the title claimed by John Clunies-Ross, a Scottish sea captain, who proclaimed himself "King" Ross I of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in 1827. Queen Victoria granted the islands in perpetuity to the Clunies-Ross family in 1886. Thus, the royal title was claimed by his descendants until 1978 when "King" Ross V sold the islands to the Australian federal government, which had already been administering them since 1955.
Neither John Clunies-Ross, nor any of his descendants, was ever internationally recognized as King. Ross V currently lives in exile in Perth, Western Australia but his son John George Clunies-Ross (born 1957) lives on West Island the capital of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

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List of "Kings" of the Cocos Islands

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List of "Kings" of the Cocos Islands

'Order'	'"King"'	'Reign'	'Lived'
1.	John Clunies-Ross (Ross I)	1827-1854	1786-1854
2.	John George Clunies-Ross (Ross II)	1854-1871	1823-1871
3.	George Clunies-Ross (Ross III)	1871-7 July 1910	1841-1910
4.	Sydney Clunies-Ross (Ross IV)	1910-1944	1880-1944
5.	John Cecil Clunies-Ross (Ross V)	1944-1978	b. 1928

External links

★ Cocos Island page at Genealogical Gleanings

★ Clunies-Ross Dynasty

★ The man who lost a 'coral kingdom'