List of administrative heads of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands explained

This is a list of the administrative heads of Cocos (Keeling) Islands since 23 November 1955, when it became an external territory of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Ordinal	Officeholder	Title	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
		Official Representative of Cocos (Keeling) Islands	23 November 1955	13 November 1957
		Acting Official Representative of Cocos (Keeling) Islands	14 December 1957	13 March 1958
		Official Representative of Cocos (Keeling) Islands	8 November 1958	27 July 1960
			27 July 1960	17 April 1966
			18 April 1966	19 June 1966
			20 June 1966	25 June 1969
			26 June 1969	28 July 1972
			29 July 1972	16 July 1975
		Administrator of Cocos (Keeling) Islands	23 July 1975	15 November 1977
			16 November 1977	25 July 1979
Granted autonomy from the Commonwealth of Australia
	Charles Ivens Buffett	Administrator of Cocos (Keeling) Islands	25 July 1979	31 December 1981		(contd.)
			21 April 1982	22 November 1983
			14 December 1983	6 April 1984
Integrated with Australia in an act of self-determination (see 1984 status referendum)
	Kenneth Chan	Administrator of Cocos (Keeling) Islands	6 April 1984	19 November 1985		(contd.)
			20 November 1985	December 1987
		Acting Administrator of Cocos (Keeling) Islands	January 1988	30 June 1988
			1 July 1988	7 November 1988
		Administrator of Cocos (Keeling) Islands	8 November 1988	27 November 1990
			1 December 1990	4 December 1992
			5 December 1992	4 December 1994
		Acting Administrator of Cocos (Keeling) Islands	4 December 1994	31 January 1995
		Administrator of Cocos (Keeling) Islands	1 February 1995	30 January 1996
		Acting Administrator of Cocos (Keeling) Islands	1 February 1996	1 July 1996
	Jarl Andersson		1 July 1996	12 April 1997		(contd.)
			12 April 1997	30 September 1997
					years
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				incumbent

See also

• King of the Cocos Islands
• List of administrative heads of Christmas Island

External links

• World StatesmenCocos (Keeling) Islands