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Develop and implement a Performance Monitoring Plan for the park to enable performance reporting on the management of the park and its values.

    7.6.4           Develop, implement and maintain a Management Plan Implementation Schedule throughout the life of the plan to guide annual work programs and to determine management priorities, scheduling and funding allocation.

    7.6.5           Annually monitor, review and report on the implementation of this management plan.

    7.6.6           Audit the plan's implementation before preparing the next management plan. The audit will include, but not be limited to:

       (a)    assessing whether the policies and actions were successfully adopted or implemented and if not, the reasons why

       (b)    assessing whether the policies and actions were successful in meeting the objectives outlined in the plan, the EPBC Act requirements and maintaining park values

       (c)     making recommendations for the preparation of the next plan.

                   A description of
                   the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
                   and Pulu Keeling National Park

A description of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
and Pulu Keeling National Park
Location of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Located in the Indian Ocean (latitude 12°12'S, longitude 96°54'E), the Cocos (Keeling) Islands are approximately 2,900 kilometres north-west of Perth, 975 kilometres west-south-west of Christmas Island and 1,000 kilometres south-west of Java Head in Indonesia. They are one of Australia's most distant and isolated territories. The Cocos (Keeling) Islands consist of 27 separate islands, the land area of which totals some 14 square kilometres (see Map 2).
The island group comprises two separate atolls: the southern, inhabited atoll of 26 islands, and the northern atoll, North Keeling Island – a single figure-eight shaped island – which is located 24 kilometres to the north of the southern group of islands. The atolls are connected by a submerged ridge at a depth of 700–800 metres. Together they comprise a single feature rising from the surrounding ocean floor.
Pulu Keeling National Park was proclaimed in December 1995 and is Australia's sixth Commonwealth national park. 'Pulu' is the Cocos-Malay word for island. The boundary of the park is rectangular in shape. The park includes 213 hectares of land on the island (including the central lagoon) and a marine area of 2,390 hectares surrounding the island (see Map 3).

Settlement of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Captain William Keeling of the Dutch East India Company is believed to have been the first European to sight the islands in 1609 on his return from Bantam in the Dutch East Indies, though there is no formally documented record of that sighting.
In 1805, when sailing through this region of the Indian Ocean, the British hydrographer James Horsburgh named the island group the Cocos-Keeling Islands, after the coconut (Cocos nucifera) which grow in profusion on the islands, and named Horsburgh