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West Island
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What is there

Worth seeing in and around West Island

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    West Island Mosque

    The West Island Mosque is a heritage-listed mosque at Alexander Street, West Island, Cocos Islands, an external territory of Australia. The mosque was added to the Australian Commonwealth Heritage List on 22 June 2004.

    3.3 km · mosque in Cocos Islands, Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to West Island

Airports
Cocos (Keeling) Islands (CCK), 4 km
Stations
Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport, 3.7 km
  • Jakarta → West Island
    1283 km · quickest by road, 50h 50m · Rp426,000–568,000
    GuideToday
  • Padang (Katapiang) → West Island
    1321 km · quickest by road, 47h 25m · Rp552,000–737,000
    GuideToday
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for West Island

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for West Island. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundA local bus service from West Island Settlement to the jetty operates approximately 20 minutes prior to the departure of the ferry to Home Island and costs $0.50.
  • Get aroundOn Saturday the ferry diverts to Direction Island to allow tourists and locals access to this remote paradise.
  • Get aroundThe ferry returns in the afternoon to return you to West Island.

From Wikivoyage: Cocos (Keeling) Islands, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    SelatpanjangID

    7 ways of moving, 12 sources

    1,601 km
  2. 02
    Tanjung Balai KarimunID

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    1,637 km
  3. 03
    Lake Toba and SamosirID

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    1,666 km
  4. 04
    Tanjung Pinang and BintanID

    9 ways of moving, 49 sources

    1,681 km
  5. 05
    TiomanMY

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    1,853 km

If you know how people move in West Island – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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