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Diego Garcia is an island of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), a disputed overseas territory of the United Kingdom also claimed by Mauritius. It is a militarised atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of the 60 small islands of the Chagos Archipelago. Portuguese sailors under Pedro Mascarenhas were ...
Chagossian human rights activists charge that the number of Chagossian residents on Diego Garcia was deliberately under-counted in order to play down the scale of the proposed mass deportation. Three years before the depopulation plan was created, Sir Robert Scott, Governor of Mauritius, estimated the permanent population of Diego Garcia at ...
Length and surface. 13/31. 3,659 metres (12,005 ft) Concrete. Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia is a British Ministry of Defence facility leased to the United States Navy, located on the atoll Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Camp Thunder Cove is part of the facility, and is operated by the United States Armed Forces and British Armed Forces.
Camp Justice – Diego Garcia. Camp Thunder Cove, formerly Camp Justice is a United States Navy and Air Forces support facility within the US-UK Naval Support Facility on Diego Garcia, a small and isolated island in the Indian Ocean. [1][2][3] The island is in the Chagos Archipelago, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. [4][5][6][7]
The suitability of Diego Garcia as the site of the planned military base was determined following a joint survey of the Chagos Archipelago and certain islands of the Seychelles in 1964. Following the survey, the United States sent its proposals to the United Kingdom, identifying Diego Garcia as its first preference as the site for the military ...
Predominantly Christianity. The Chagossians (also Îlois [il.wa] [3] or Chagos Islanders) are an Afro-Asian ethnic group originating from freed African slaves brought to the Chagos Islands, specifically Diego Garcia, Peros Banhos, and the Salomon island chain, in the late 18th century as well as people of Asian (Indian and Malay) descent. [4]
East Point is an abandoned settlement on the east of the atoll of Diego Garcia in the British Indian Ocean Territory. It was the largest civilian settlement in the archipelago, and served as the administrative capital until the depopulation of the territory. [1][2][3] The settlement contained a church, cemetery, school, sanatorium in addition ...
Diego Garcia is a novel by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams, published in 2022 by Fitzcarraldo Editions, which won the Goldsmiths Prize that year. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is the first collaborative novel to win the prize.