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Chagos Archipelago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lakshadweepa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lakshadweepa means "one hundred thousand islands" in Sanskrit. It is a somewhat poetical term, not related to actual geographical facts. The word Lakshadweepa refers to the five archipelagoes stretch...
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Where and what is the Chagos ? The Chagos has the world’s largest coral atoll and 55 tiny islands of which the largest is Diego Garcia in quarter of a million square miles of the world’s cleanest seas. It is by far Britain’s greatest area of marine biodiversity.
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Alex catches a bit of sleep in the Chagos Archipelago. The islands are uninhabited but cruising sailboats stop for months on end. Yachtie gardens and huts abound. ... Passing cruisers leave a mark of passing through the Chagos Archipelago on one of the deserted buildings.
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Media in category "Chagos Archipelago" ... Categories: Archipelagoes of the Indian Ocean | Geography of the British Indian Ocean Territory | Disputed islands...
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The biggest sights in the Chagos Archipelago. ... The British Government, five members of the House of Lords ruled today, does not have to let islanders return to the Chagos Archipelago, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean most notable for the Diego Garcia Naval Support Facility, set up through a secret agreement...
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March 2009. The Chagos Conservation Trust has launched a booklet, The Chagos Archipelago: Its nature and the future, to start a discussion on a programme ‘to create one of the world's greatest conservation areas' in the little-known British Indian Ocean Territory.
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Mauritius claims the Chagos Archipelago including Diego Garcia; in 2001, the former inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago, evicted in 1967 and 1973 and now residing chiefly in Mauritius, were granted UK citizenship and the right to repatriation;
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Report on a few Coccidae (Homopt.) collected by P O Wiehe in the Chagos Archipelago ... A new genus and eight new species of Brachyura from Mauriitus and the Chagos Archipelago ... New records and species of land mollusca from Mascarene and Chagos Archipelagoes...
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The U.T of Lakshadweep along with the Maldives and the Chagos Archipelagoes form an interrupted chain of coral atolls and reefs on a contiguous submarine bank covering a distance of over 2000 km. This ridge is supposed to be a continuation of the Arravali mountains, and the islands are believed to be remnants of...
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