Remote Indian Ocean Islad

A tiny ocean island is home to a restricted US-UK military base. The secret just got out

The UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but indigenous people from a tiny island that houses a US military base shrouded in secrecy will not be allowed to return

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UK Hands Indian Ocean Islands To Mauritius But Keeps Key US Military Base

Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of a remote Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius but will maintain there a strategic military base that it shares with the United States, in what US President Joe Biden described as a "historic agreement".

The Mirror · 1d

UK hands over remote Indian Ocean islands after decades-long battle

In a historic move, Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed that a deal had been reached to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after decades of fraught negotiations

UK cedes control of strategic Indo-Pacific islands, raising security concerns

British officials announced the Chagos Islands would be ceded to Mauritius, in exchange for retaining a joint US-UK military ...

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Chagos diaspora angry at lack of input on islands' fate

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...

‘Weak, weak, weak’: Strange political furore erupts as Britain cedes sovereignty over remote islands

A series of islands in the remote reaches of the Indian Ocean are at the centre of a “historic agreement”, which will see the ...

Voice of America9d

Mice killing off rare seabirds on remote South African island

Marion Island, in the southern Indian Ocean almost 2,000 kilometers from Cape Town, is a remote and windswept South African territory that’s home to extensive bird life, including the ...

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This remote island is so dangerous to tourists there's a 5 mile exclusion zone around it

But there’s one island that’s far less travelled that its counterparts – and for good reason. If you head east, to the Bay of Bengal, you’ll find North Sentinel Island, which boasts the same clear ...

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