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.

The early settlers from Cocos Keeling Islands worked in Mostyn Estate

Tobacco was planted in Kunak, besides Segama in Lahad Datu. That was way back in 1945, just after the war when many Cocos Islanders left their islands in search of better pasture as there were not enough food at the Cocos Islands. Now most of them have their own plot of land in a Settlement Scheme at Giram, also in Kunak.

Kg Cocos Segama Lahad Datu