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Diego Garcia

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Diego Garcia coral island, 11 sq mi (28 sq km). Indian Ocean, largest island of the Chagos Archipelago, SW of Sri Lanka. Part of the British Indian Ocean Territory , the island was leased (1970) to the United States and later developed as a joint U.S.-British naval base to guard the Persian Gulf oil routes and to counter increased Soviet military activities in S Asia and Africa. Some 3,000 islanders were removed to Mauritius and the Seychelles in the late 1960s prior to the construction of the naval base. Author not available, DIEGO GARCIA. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth... Read more
Diego Garcia
Diego Garcia the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean, site of a strategic Anglo-American naval base established in 1973. Read more
Diego Garcia
Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory An island discovered by the Portuguese in the early 16th century, it was a dependency of Mauritius... Read more

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