Diego Garcia - Wikipedia
WEBDiego Garcia is the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). It has been used as a joint UK–U.S. military base since the 1970s, following the forcible expulsion of its inhabitants by the UK government.
Diego Garcia: What is on the secretive UK-US island in the Indian Ocean ...
WEBSep 29, 2024 · Diego Garcia is one of about 60 islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago or British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot) - the last colony established by the UK by separating it from Mauritius in...
Diego Garcia | History & Map | Britannica - Encyclopedia Britannica
WEB6 days ago · 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 Territory.
British Indian Ocean Territory - Wikipedia
WEBThe British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia. The territory comprises the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islands, many very small, amounting to a total land area of 60 square kilometres (23 square ...
Geography of the British Indian Ocean Territory - Wikipedia
WEBPhysical geography. BIOT is an archipelago of 55 islands. [4] . They were annexed by the UK in 1965 under the Treaty of Paris from a much larger archipelago which in 1804 consisted of 2,300 independent islands. [2][3] BIOT is …
UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius
WEBOct 3, 2024 · Getty Images. The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century. The deal – reached ...
British Indian Ocean Territory - The World Factbook
WEB5 days ago · note 1: archipelago of 55 islands; Diego Garcia, the largest and southernmost island, occupies a strategic location in the central Indian Ocean; the island is the site of a joint US-UK military facility. note 2: Diego Garcia is the only inhabited island of the BIOT and one of only two British territories where traffic drives on the right, the ...
Diego Garcia: Where the Refugee Convention doesn’t apply
WEBSep 15, 2022 · For nearly a year, Suresh* has been stranded on Diego Garcia, a remote British-held island in the Indian Ocean, along with dozens of other Tamil asylum seekers who say they’re fleeing ethnic persecution in Sri Lanka.
British Indian Ocean Territory - The World Factbook
WEBDec 14, 2021 · Formerly administered as part of the British Crown Colony of Mauritius, the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) was established as an overseas territory of the UK in 1965. A number of the islands of the territory were later transferred to the Seychelles when it attained independence in 1976.
British Indian Ocean Territory - Encyclopedia Britannica
WEBSep 20, 2024 · British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the central Indian Ocean. It was established in 1965. Since 1976 it has been coterminous with the islands of the Chagos Archipelago. Learn more about the British Indian Ocean Territory here.