The UK Government said earlier it had reached a political agreement with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands, also known as the ...

Shadow science secretary Andrew Griffith said the area included the Great Chagos Bank, the world’s largest coral atoll, as ...

The closest islands are Danger Island on the Great Chagos Bank, and Île Sipaille in the Egmont Atoll, both located about 120 km (75 mi) East-North-East of Owen Bank.

What are the Chagos Islands - and why has the UK handed ... before parliament returned from recess - includes the tropical atoll Diego Garcia used by the US and UK as a military base, although ...

Eagle Islands is a group of two islands in the Chagos Archipelago. They are located on the central-western rim of the Great Chagos Bank, which is the world's largest coral atoll structure.

The Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean comprise seven atolls, with the northernmost atoll called Peros Banhos ... United Kingdom sovereignty. When Great Britain began to decolonise its Indian ...

After decades of wrangling over the fate of the Chagos Islands ... The Diego Garcia atoll - the biggest of the islands, which covers just 10 square miles of dry land - serves as a strategically ...

The UK has agreed to give up sovereignty of a group of islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius in return for securing the ...

The British government is to hand over sovereignty of the disputed Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a historic deal after years of negotiations, it has emerged. This includes the tropical atoll of ...