Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Cocos Community Also Lived in Segama Lahad Datu





The Cocos Community who settled down at Mile 6, Segama Road, Lahad Datu after the tobacco closed down. They came to Segama from Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1950 and 1952. A small group of 41 families left to work at Pamol Estate in Sandkan in 1960, Hj Dick was their leader. What is left of the tobacco plantation is an old smoke house and the site of the pump house near the Segama River. Lahad Datu is a town in the Sabah's East Coast. It is a one hour journey by air. It has a small airport that can only take the Fokker Friendship aircraft.

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