Chagos Archipelago
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The Chagos Archipelago formerly Bassas de Chagas and later also Oil Islands, is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical island
The Portuguese explored Diego Garcia in the 1500s (it is named for a Portuguese navigator). Between 1814 and 1965 it was a territory of Mauritius. It then became part of the Chagos Archipelago, which belonged to the newly created British Indian Ocean Territory. In 1970, the island was leased to the United States, and developed as a joint U.S.-UK air and naval refueling and support station during t
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