The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...
Except for the US military base on Diego Garcia at the southern tip of the archipelago ... the most pristine tropical coral reef ecosystems on our planet. Chagos is nearly three times the area ...
Protection of pristine coral reefs in the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean could be set to change – pictured here from Diego Garcia, the largest and only inhabited island. John Parker ...
When Captain Robert Moresby sailed through the Chagos Islands between 1834 and 1837, to conduct the first survey of the ...
For years, China has taken over uninhabited reef islands and transformed ... handed Xi Jinping a major win after ceding the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean ...
When China is busily building runways over every coral reef it can enlarge ... the Seychelles and the Chagos Archipelago. (“A capital notion,” says Jack Aubrey, the fictional hero of Patrick ...
Mauritius is a stable and prosperous Indian Ocean archipelago ... coral reef, spilling up to 1,000 tonnes of heavy oil - one of the worst environmental disasters to hit the western Indian Ocean. 2024 ...
The Chagos archipelago lies in the ­middle of the Indian Ocean. It is made up of a series of low-lying coral ­atolls, lying approximately 2200 miles east of Mombasa on the Kenyan coast ...