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The Great Chagos Bank, in the Chagos Archipelago, about 500 km (310 mi) south of Maldives, is the largest atoll structure in the world, with a total area of 12,642 km 2 (4,881 sq mi). [1] The atoll is administered by the United Kingdom through the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
The number of atolls in the Chagos Archipelago is given as four or five in most sources, plus two island groups and two single islands, mainly because it is not recognised that the Great Chagos Bank is a huge atoll structure (including those two island groups and two single islands), and because Blenheim Reef, which has islets or cays above or ...
Danger Island on the western rim of the Great Chagos bank. Danger Island is the westernmost and the southernmost island of the Great Chagos Bank, which is the world's largest coral atoll structure, located in the Chagos Archipelago of the British Indian Ocean Territory in the Indian Ocean.
The Chagos marine reserve protects the world's largest coral atoll (the Great Chagos Bank) and has one of the healthiest reef systems in the cleanest waters of the world, supporting nearly half the area of good quality reefs in the Indian Ocean. [13]
The following is a list of islands in the Chagos Archipelago. The Chagos Archipelago is a group of seven atolls comprising 58 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, situated some 500 kilometres (310 mi) south of the Maldives archipelago. The archipelago is a British Indian Ocean Territory.
Britain struck a deal in October to hand over the Chagos Islands while retaining control of the base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of the archipelago in the Indian Ocean, under a 99-year lease.
A special cabinet meeting has been called in Mauritius on Wednesday to discuss Sir Keir Starmer’s proposals
Eagle Islands is a group of two islands in the Chagos Archipelago of the British Indian Ocean Territory. They are located on the central-western rim of the Great Chagos Bank , which is the world's largest coral atoll structure.