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British Indian Ocean Territory

a UK Overseas Territory in the Indian Ocean: consists of the Chagos Archipelago (formerly a dependency of Mauritius) and formerly included (until 1976) Aldabra, Farquhar, and Des Roches, now administratively part of the Seychelles. Diego Garcia is an important US naval base
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Ascension Island, Bahamas, Bermuda, Belize, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gibraltar.
It appears the book is also doing duty for Diego Garcia, Chagos (2 entries) and the British Indian Ocean Territory (nil entries).
KBR announced its global government services business, KBRwyle, has been awarded a $62 million contract modification to continue providing base operating support services, or BOSS, at Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia in the British Indian Ocean Territory. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, or NAVFAC, Pacific has awarded KBRwyle the first of a possible seven option years on a $515 million fixed-price-with-award fee contract originally won by KBRwyle in 2017.
Diego Garcia is the largest of 55 islands that form the Chagos Archipelago within the British Indian Ocean Territory and is known as the "Footprint of Freedom" for its shape, regional location, and strategic importance.
British Indian Ocean Territory or Chagos Island - - population 3,000.
Well, Mauritius is not pleased about the UK's continued refusal to settle the long-standing dispute about the Chagos Archipelago, which was detached from Mauritian territory in 1965 in breach of international law before independence in 1968, and now forms the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
5 The Government won an appeal against a court decision in favour of 2,000 former residents of a British Indian Ocean territory when the Lords ruled they would not be able to return to which islands?
The judges ruled that the interests of the islanders from the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) had been ignored.
Overseas countries and territories of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Anguilla, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint Helena and Dependencies, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, Turks and Caicos Islands, British Virgin Islands.
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