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Diego Garcia, coral atoll, largest and southernmost member of the Chagos Archipelago, in the central Indian Ocean. Administratively, it was a dependency of Mauritius for most of its history, but since 1965 it has been part of the British Indian Ocean Ter
Overseas Territory:British Indian Ocean Territory Country:United Kingdom Overseas Territory:British Indian Ocean Territory Lat/Long:7°18'S / 72°24'E Elevation:12 m Currency:Pound Sterling (GBP) Languages:English Country Code:+246 Note:Diego Garcia is the largest island on Chagos Archipelago, in...
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This is the flag of 🇬🇧 the British Indian Ocean Territory-Diego Garcia Island/Diego Island. Its background has horizontal blue and white wavy stripes and there is a British flag in upper left corner . At the bottom right is a palm tree with a golden crown 👑 strung on the trunk...
Between 1967 and 1973, the indigenous people of the Indian Ocean's Chagos Archipelago were forcibly displaced from their homelands so the US Government could construct a strategic military base on the island of Diego Garcia. The people of Diego Garcia and the rest of the Chagos Archipelago now...
The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to secure the future of a strategically important U.K.
Ceded to the British by France in 1814, the Chagos Islands are located in the middle of the Indian Ocean. In 1966, Great Britain signed a military agreement with the U.S. to lease Diego Garcia, the archipelago's main island, for 50 years.Dodds, Klaus...
(1911), MarineCorpsAir Station Miramar (originally the Army’s Camp Kearney) and Naval Air Station North Island (both 1917), Naval Base San Diego (1919), and Naval Amphibious Base Coronado (1943); in addition, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton (1942) was set up a short distance northwest,...