Just imagine if a 60-strong tropical island chain with the world's largest atoll, a third of the size of the area of all Maldives but far more open to Indian Ocean swells, suddenly appeared on the ...

Where are the Chagos Islands? The Chagos Islands are located more than 2,000 miles off the east coast of Africa and around 310 miles south of the Maldives Archipelago.

Labour's surrender of the Chagos Islands puts at risk one of the world's largest marine protected areas, MPs and campaigners have warned. The Chagos Marine Protected Area is one of the world's ...

A half-century after native inhabitants of the Chagos Islands were forced out to make room for a U.S. military base, a Chagossian leader came to D.C. seeking reparations.

Charles Sheppard has received funding from OTEP and DEFRA. He is a member of the Chagos Conservation Trust. The Chagos Islands marine protected area is the largest of its kind in the world ...

UN maps now show the territory as Mauritian, ... Most of the population of the Chagos Islands was dumped, unceremoniously, and without compensation, in Mauritius, 1,000 miles to the south.

Chagos is nearly three times the area of the British Isles. In 2010, it became the world’s largest marine protected area that bans any form of fishing. The shallow water coral reefs account for ...

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 ...

Thousands of Indigenous people who live there on the Chagos Islands were forced from their homeland 50 years ago to make way for that base. Ever since, they've been fighting for the right to return.

Just imagine if a 60-strong tropical island chain with the world's largest atoll, a third of the size of the area of all Maldives but far more open to Indian Ocean swells, suddenly appeared on the ...