For years, China has taken over uninhabited reef islands and transformed ... handed Xi Jinping a major win after ceding the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean ...

The unique reefs and coral atolls, which include the Great ... with the Government of Mauritius on the future of the Chagos archipelago. There has been an agreement that the Mauritian government ...

Gray reef sharks in the Chagos Archipelago of the Indian Ocean "spent significantly less time" in their remote coral reefs following stress events, including "the major ocean-warming" 2015-16 El ...

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Chagos Archipelago, Maldives, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. Other geographic highlights include Atlantic and Antarctic material. A largely historic collection, the non-reef corals are from ...

The UK’s handover of the Chagos archipelago and retention of Diego Garcia is a strategic move that raises questions about the intentions of major powers’ relations with small island nations.

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.