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	Chagos Archipelago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chagos Archipelago is a group of six atolls with more than 600 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, that lies about 500 km (300 miles) due south of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, and 1600 km (1000 miles) southwest of India, halfway between Africa and Indonesia.
		Since 1976, the archipelago has been coterminous with the British Indian Ocean Territory, but it is also claimed by Mauritius and the Seychelles.
		This is disputed by the former islanders, who point out that rainfall in the archipelago is among the highest in the world and that the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was reported as causing little damage in the islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chagos_Archipelago (848 words)

	UKOTCF - Chagos Conservation Trust in Diego Garcia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Chagos Conservation Trust is a charitable association, established in 1992, whose aims are to promote conservation, scientific and historical research, and to advance education concerning the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia, the largest island.
		The Chagos Archipelago is an isolated group of atolls and reefs in the Central Indian Ocean.
		The isolation of the Chagos, far from maritime trade routes, and restrictions on access to the islands means that they and the adjoining reef areas enjoy an exceptionally pure environment, free from the contamination normally associated with human activity.
	www.ukotcf.org /members/chagos.htm (504 words)

	ILOIS TRUST Online
		The Chagos, like the Seychelles at this point, was considered to be one of the dependencies of Mauritius and was formally ceded to Great Britain through the Treaty of Paris in 1814.
		In general, life in the Chagos Archipelago changed very little under British rule and slavery remained the defining feature of the coconut plantations and settlements, as it would until the abolition of slavery in Mauritius and its dependencies in 1835.
		These names, while they were common in the Chagos Archipelago during the 1820s and 1830s, to a certain extent resemble some of the names of today’s Chagossians who reside in Mauritius and the Seychelles.
	www.iloistrust.org /8695.html (1252 words)

	The Head Heeb: Back to BIOT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		BIOT, it will be remembered, lies in the Chagos Archipelago, a chain of islands that has been leased by the United States Navy since the early 1970s.
		The Chagos archipelago was administered as part of Mauritius before being split off to form BIOT in 1965, and successive Mauritian governments have claimed that the creation of BIOT violated the principle of uti possidetis or sanctity of colonial borders.
		The Chagos islands are in no more danger than other low-lying Indian Ocean islands, and their long-term habitability (not to mention their suitability for long-term naval occupation) has never previously been called into question.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/025488.html (1174 words)

	University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
		Prior to Mauritius being granted its independence, the Chagos Archipelago was unlawfully excised by the United Kingdom from the territory of Mauritius.
		In accordance with article 2 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Mauritius has repeatedly called for the former inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago and their families, who were forcibly evicted to Mauritius by the then colonial power, to be allowed to return to the Archipelago, including Diego Garcia.
		Whenever the Chagos issue has been raised, Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom has maintained that sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago will revert to Mauritius when the military facility on Diego Garcia is no longer needed for the defence of the West.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/hrcommittee/mauritius2002.html (610 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests (IM0125)
		Two-hundred of the islands are inhabited, with a population estimated at 301,475 in 2000.
		Chagos is the most remote group of islands, located at 5°-8° S. Roughly 500 km south of the Maldives, the Chagos Islands are uninhabited, aside from Diego Garcia, which is used as a US military base.
		The climate of this archipelago is monsoon tropical, with a dry season associated with the winter northeast monsoon lasting December to March and the rainy season of the southwest monsoon from April to October.
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0125_full.html (2094 words)

	Human Rights Internet - The Human Rights Databank
		Thirty years ago, the people of the Chagos Archipelago were forcibly displaced from their lands.
		The Chagos Archipelago — comprised of 65 islands — is located in the Indian Ocean, south of the Maldive Islands, and south-west of India.
		From 1814 to 1965, the Archipelago was under British rule and was considered part of Mauritian territory.
	www.hri.ca /tribune/viewArticle.asp?ID=2434 (549 words)

	Chagos Archipelago -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The archipelago has a total area of 23 square miles (60 square km) and constitutes a semicircular group, open to the east, comprising (counterclockwise from the north) the Salomon...
		colony of the United Kingdom in the central Indian Ocean, established November 8, 1965, by the amalgamation of the Aldabra Islands and the Farquhar and Desroches islands (all purchased from the Seychelles) with the Chagos Archipelago (formerly a dependency of Mauritius).
		The Aldabras, together with Farquhar and Desroches islands and the Chagos Archipelago, formed part of the British Indian Ocean Territory from 1965 to 1976.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9022238?tocId=9022238 (725 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chagos along with the whole of the rest of Mauritius is ceded to Britain by France in 1814 after the 1810 capitulation during the Napoleonic Wars.
		Following the Constitutional Conference, the Chagos Archipelago is detached from Mauritius and, along with three islands from the British colony of Seychelles, they are made into the new Colony of British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
		Chagos Refugees Group and their legal advisor, Robin Mardaymootoo sue the US State, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and US corporations for damages, for torture and genocide.
	www.lalitmauritius.com /kronoloziprufrid.htm (1673 words)

	Chagosians/Ilois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The island of Chagos Archipelago is covered in rich foliage and soaring palm trees.
		The British government claimed that the removal of the culture from Chagos Island was unlawful, and should never have been allowed to happen.
		Tthe Islanders from the tiny Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean won the right in British court to return to their homeland 30 years after they were forcibly removed.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/pacific/chagosians.html (552 words)

	Chagos Islanders v. Attorney General
		Discussions were held between the UK Government and the Governments of Mauritius and of the Seychelles upon the terms of the detachment of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and of Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches from the Seychelles.
		By mid 1985, the Chagos Refugee Group, amongst the leaders of which was Olivier Bancoult, were contending that the Ilois had been exiled through coercion, in violation of their human rights; they continued to claim that the compensation was inadequate.
		It was Chagos Agalega Company Limited and the subsequent management company, Moulinie & Co, which was responsible for reducing the number of workers, for recruitment and organising the transport of the workers and their dependants to Mauritius, Agalega and the Seychelles upon closure of the islands.
	www.uniset.ca /naty/2003EWHC2222.htm (15658 words)

	Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Chagos Archipelago is a possession of the United Kingdom, and is known officially as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
		Access to the Chagos Archipelago is limited, partly because of the presence of the military base at Diego Garcia, and partly because of its isolation.
		It is also clear that if the coral reefs of the Chagos are to be preserved in a pristine condition, as many hope, greater efforts will have to be made to control fishing of the reefs' top predators.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /natsci/ichthyology/organizations/ssg/sharknews/sn10/shark10news1.htm (1941 words)

	ATOPIA: Lost Paradise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Until the 1950's, the Chagos Archipelago was a peaceful paradise in the middle of the Indian Ocean, with a large number of indigenous inhabitants.
		The Chagos Archipelago is a group of 65 islands located in the middle of the Indian Ocean close to equator, south of the Maldives and 1,900 miles away from Mauritius.
		The atolls of Peros Banhos and Salomon of the archipelago became a leper colony.
	atopia.tk /vanish/chagos.htm (2599 words)

	ACTION ATLAS: Coral Reefs: Chagos Archipelago (U.K.)
		Reefs off this remote British Indian Ocean Territory are well-developed and the closest thing to untouched in the region, but the Chagos Bank reef area is being overfished under the very nose of the Royal Navy.
		Scientists from a research expedition that visited in 1996 report that Sri Lankan pirate fishing boats were easily dodging the lone patrol boat the navy could spare to canvass the area; her Majesty's laxity allows the pirates to make off with huge numbers of reef sharks and other large fish, virtually eliminating whole predator populations.
		Since the Brits leased the southernmost island in the archipelago, Diego Garcia, to the U.S. in the 1960s, the massive U.S. Navy base there has caused reef damage through large-scale dredging and construction.
	www.motherjones.com /news/special_reports/coral_reef/chagos.html (280 words)

	Amphiprion Chagosensis Variant
		Chagos Archipelago, brown form: Suez Canal, Red Sea.
		Chagos Archipelago has been a military zone for some years and off-limits to most tourists.
		At Chagos Archipelago it is often confused with A.bicinctus which can also be found there, although A.bicinctus is much larger and visually different.
	wish.wodonga.tafe.edu.au /~kwaldon/chag060.htm (150 words)

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		The Chagos Archipelago is located in the Indian Ocean and includes the island of Diego Garcia, which currently houses a U.S. Naval base.
		Non-Chagossians are permitted access to the outer islands of the Chagos Archipelago 2 and recruited for employment on the Diego Garcia military facility; however, Defendants continue the forced exile of the Chagossian population by systematically excluding all Chagossians from employment opportunities on Diego Garcia and access to the entire Chagos Archipelago.
		Plaintiffs assert that Defendant United States denies Plaintiffs access to the entire Chagos Archipelago while non-Chagossian vacationers are allowed to stay on the outer islands of the Archipelago for extended periods.
	www.zianet.com /tedmorris/dg/bancoult-d58.html (3070 words)

	Chagos Archipelago on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The battle for the Chagos archipelago: Mauritius is preparing to go to the International Court of Justice to re-claim its sovereignty over the Chagos archipelago.
		Chagos: Talks on the Future of the Islands Are On...
		The family of 9, originally from the Chagos Archipelago now live a miserable life in Mauritius.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-C1hagos.asp (274 words)

	com001 OAU threatens reconciliation pact on Comoros
		Mauritius is engaged in sovereignty conflicts with Britain (over the Chagos Archipelago) and France (over Île Tromelin), and faces the possibility of a secessionist movement by the Chagossians, if these win their claims against the British government.
		Pending a resolution of the issue, the former residents of Chagos Archipelago and their families who were forcibly evicted to Mauritius by the colonial power must be allowed to return to their homeland.
		The Chagos refugees have filed a law suit against the British Government, claiming the illegality of their eviction from their home islands from 1965 and onwards.
	www.afrol.com /News/mas003_chagos_anjouan.htm (2165 words)

	Chagus Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Chagos archipelago lies 6 degrees south 72 degrees east.
		In 1814 the archipelago was ceded to Britain.
		The archipelago has the largest expanse of undisturbed coral reefs in the Indian Ocean.
	www.worldvoyagers.com /iwalani/route/dest/chagos.htm (135 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Mauritius stakes claim for Chagos
		The archipelago of 60 small islands has many natural resources and officials say that use of the islands would be key to Mauritius' future development.
		Legal opinions from international lawyers say the decree which separated the archipelago from Mauritius was illegal because international law does not allow the dismembering of a country before independence.
		A pristine natural ecosystem with virgin forests and with waters bountiful in fish, the Chagos archipelago are one of the world's last remaining untouched group of islands.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/africa/3583927.stm (463 words)

	Island Vulnerability, Overseas Territories, United Kingdom
		Under the Treaty of Paris in 1814, France ceded the islands of the Chagos Archipelago, Mauritius, and Seychelles to Britain.
		The Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia, was administered by Mauritius until 1965 when the Mauritius Council of Ministers agreed that the Archipelago would become part of the newly-created BIOT.
		The lack of civilian infrastructure on the Chagos Archipelago is a challenge to be overcome, yet a report for the UK government in 2000 indicated the strong potential for successful settlement of the islands.
	www.islandvulnerability.org /otuk.html (4725 words)

	Out of Bounds: Chagos Photos
		Alex catches a bit of sleep in the Chagos Archipelago.
		A whaler’s carving survives on one of the small beach front huts from 1884.
		Passing cruisers leave a mark of passing through the Chagos Archipelago on one of the deserted buildings.
	www.outofbounds.com /html/chagos_photos.html (102 words)

	3. november 2000
		1 The Chagos Archipelago is in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
		The applicant is an Ilois from Peros Banhos in the Archipelago.
		Though it is suggested that the applicant and his family (and other Ilois) were prevented from returning to the Chagos Archipelago by the British authorities before 1971, that is not accepted, and there is no challenge to any order or decision before the Ordinance.
	www.dikepublishers.com /dansk/diego_garcia/RCJ031100.html (13613 words)

	PBS - The Voyage of the Odyssey - Track the Voyage - AUSTRALIA
		The Chagos Archipelago is a vast array of coral reefs sheltering five small coral atolls and numerous submerged atolls-all having been formed during a period of millions of years.
		The atoll rims are but the tips of spectacular underwater mountains, and it is just such bathymetric features that attract the animals on which sperm whales feed, which in turn attracts the sperm whales, which has in turn attracted the Odyssey crew to this remote part of the Indian Ocean.
		These charts show that sometime in the 18th and 19th centuries, Yankee whalers did indeed pass through the Chagos archipelago, and took a few sperm whales between the months of January and May. The trouble with this information is that Townsend's charts do not give any idea of effort-i.e.
	www.pbs.org /odyssey/odyssey/20020621_log_transcript.html (714 words)

	MSN Encarta - Dictionary - Chagos Archipelago definition
		MSN Encarta - Dictionary - Chagos Archipelago definition
		Cha·gos Ar·chi·pe·la·go disputed territory of 52 islands, constituting the British Indian Ocean Territory (a dependency of Great Britain), in the Indian Ocean, south of India.
		In 1968 the British government forcibly removed the islanders to make way for U.S. military installations but in 2000 a British High Court ruled that this removal was illegal.
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_701704959/Chagos_Archipelago.html (92 words)

	British Indian Ocean Territory
		Is formed by the Chagos Islands (Diego Garcia, Peros Banhos, etc...) in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
		The territory was established on 8 November 1965 by the amalgamation of the Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches islands (formerly part of the Seychelles) and the Chagos Archipelago (formerly from Mauritius.
		The Chagos islands continued to be administered as a dependency of Mauritius until, with the full agreement of the Mauritius Council of Ministers, they were detached to become part of the British Indian Ocean Territory in 1965.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/io.html (768 words)

	Diego Garcia "Camp Justice"
		It is the largest of fifty-two islands which form the Chagos Archipelago, located in the heart of the Indian Ocean.
		The archipelago is located in the heart of the Indian Ocean, south of India and between Africa and Indonesia.
		Diego Garcia, the southernmost island in the Chagos Archipelago and a part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, is centrally located in the Indian Ocean.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/diego-garcia.htm (3163 words)

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