British Indian Ocean Territory
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The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia. The territory comprises the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islands, many very small, amounting to a total land area of 60 square kilometers (23 square miles). The largest and most southerly island is Diego Garcia, 27 square kilometers (10 square miles), the site of a Joint Military Facility of the United Kingdom and the United States. Official administration is remote from London, though the local capital is often regarded as on Diego Garcia.
British and United States military personnel and associated contractors are the only inhabitants, and they collectively number around 3,000 (2018 figures). The forced removal of Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago occurred between 1968 and 1973. The Chagossians, then numbering about 2,000 people, were expelled by the British government to Mauritius and Seychelles, even from the outlying islands far away from the military base on Diego Garcia. Today, the Chagossians are still trying to return, but the British government has repeatedly denied them the right to return despite calls from numerous human rights organizations to let them. The islands are off-limits to Chagossians, tourists, and the media.
Since the 1980s, the Government of Mauritius sought to gain control over the Chagos Archipelago, separated from the then Crown Colony of Mauritius by the UK in 1965 to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. A February 2019 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice called for the islands to be given to Mauritius. Afterward, the United Nations General Assembly and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea reached similar decisions. Negotiations between the UK and Mauritius began in November 2022. They culminated in an October 2024 agreement that the UK would eventually cede the territory to Mauritius while retaining the joint US-UK military base on Diego Garcia.
The British Indian Ocean Territory
(Constitution) Order 2004 defines the territory as comprising the following islands or groups of islands:
- Diego Garcia
- Three Brothers Islands
- Egmont Islands
- Nelson Island
- Peros Banhos
- Eagle Islands
- Salomon Islands
- Danger Island
See also [ Mauritius ]
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