Coso's Island is a beautiful island in the Pacific that every single one of the seven billion people in the world right now should se. One of the most captivating and beautiful places in the world. Great diving and marine wildlife. If you don't believe it, ask Jaques Cousteau.

1. ISLA DEL COCO
"the most beautiful island in the world"
-Jacques Cousteau

2. GEOGRAPHY
• 550km (340mi)
• Puntarenas
• Pacific Ocean
• 23.85km2
• 23.3km
• 1 1/2* N of the Equator

3. ORIGINS
• Volcanic and tectonic
• Only island in the Cocos plate
• Basalt (cooling lava)
• Oldest rocks 1.9 - 2.4

4. ISLA DEL COCO
• National park
• 1978
• 1997km2
• New 7 wonders
• #2 island category

5. CERRO IGLESIAS
• 575.5m

6. LAND FAUNA
• 400 known species of insects
• 2 species of lizards
• Around 90 species of birds
• 5 mammal species

7. MARINE FAUNA
• 30+ species of coral
• 60 species of crustaceans
• 600 species of mollusks
• 300 species of fish
• Large p. of yellow fin tuna,
manta rays, sharks
• Humpback and Pilot whales
• Dolphins
• Sea Lions
• Turtles

8. DIVING
• Top 10 PADI diving spots
• Big species
• Hammerhead

10. Whale shark
Manta ray
Leather-back turtle

11. PROBLEMS
• Shark finning
• Fishing
• Introduced species

12. SHARK FINNING

13. FISHING

14. INTRODUCED SPECIES
• 5 land mammals
• Pigs, Cats, Deer, Rats
• 2 plants
• Passion fruit
• Matapalo

15. FUN FACTS
• Pirates used Isla del Coco to resupply
• Jurassic Park
• The Michael Crichton novel Jurassic Park centers on the fictitious "Isla
Nublar" that is off of the west coast of Costa Rica. Isla del Coco may be
the inspiration for this island. Supporting this argument is the Dreamworks
Interactive game Jurassic Park:Trespasser (1998) which used Cocos Island's
topography as a substitute for the fictional island on which it takes place.
Also, "Isla Nublar" is intended to mean "Cloudy Island", and Cocos Island is
the only island with cloud forests in the eastern Pacific.
• Dessert island (Robinson Crusoe)

16. PIRACY & HIDDENTREASURES
• The first claims of treasure buried on the island came from a woman named Mary Welsh, who claimed 350 tons of gold raided
from Spanish galleons had been buried on the island. She had been a member of a pirate crew lead by Captain Bennett Graham,
and was transported to an Australian penal colony for her crimes. She possessed a chart showing where Graham's treasure was
supposed to be hidden. On her release she returned to the island with an expedition, which had no success in finding anything,
with the points of reference in the chart having disappeared.
• Another pirate supposed to have buried treasure on the island was the Portuguese Benito Bonito. Though Bonito was hunted
down and executed, his treasure was never retrieved.
• The best known of the treasure legends tied to the island is that of theTreasure of Lima. In 1820, with the army of José de San
Martín approaching Lima,Viceroy José de la Serna is supposed to have entrusted treasure from the city to British trader Captain
WilliamThompson for safekeeping until the Spaniards could secure the country. Instead of waiting in the harbor as they were
instructed, Thompson and his crew killed theViceroy's men and sailed to Cocos, where they buried the treasure. Shortly
afterwards, they were apprehended by a Spanish warship.All of the crew barThompson and his first mate were executed for
piracy.The two said they would show the Spaniards where they had hidden the treasure in return for their lives - but after landing
on Cocos, they escaped away into the forest.
• Hundreds of attempts to find treasure on the island have failed. Several early expeditions were mounted on the basis of claims by
a man named Keating, who was supposed to have befriendedThompson. On one trip, Keating was said to have retrieved gold and
jewels from the treasure. Prussian 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 six gold coins.

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