DIEGO GARCIA is a typical atoll ... chain of coral formations reaching from the Laccadive Islands, through the Maldives to the Chagos Group. To i?s south-west lie the submerged atoll-shaped ...

The Maldives has staked a surprise claim to the ... secure and effective operation of the existing base on Diego Garcia" while recognising Mauritian sovereignty over the archipelago.

Diego Garcia is the largest of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago about 310 miles south of The Maldives. The Biot is constitutionally separate from the UK, but administered from London.

Point being, Diego Garcia is holding some A-plus surf ... Related: The Chagos Islands: A New Maldives? "The main hazards were no other surfers, shallow coral, fire coral, stonefish, and a variety ...

The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years. It’s long past time to decolonize the Chagos Islands. None of the ...