Labour’s surrender of the Chagos Islands puts at risk one of the world's largest marine protected areas, MPs and campaigners have warned. The Chagos Marine Protected Area is one of the world's ...

The UK Government said earlier it had reached a political agreement with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands, also known as the ...

Shadow science secretary Andrew Griffith said the area included the Great Chagos Bank, the world’s largest coral atoll, as ...

The closest islands are Danger Island on the Great Chagos Bank, and Île Sipaille in the Egmont Atoll, both located about 120 km (75 mi) East-North-East of Owen Bank.

Eagle Islands is a group of two islands in the Chagos Archipelago. They are located on the central-western rim of the Great Chagos Bank, which is the world's largest coral atoll structure.

The Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean comprise seven atolls, with the northernmost atoll called Peros Banhos ... United Kingdom sovereignty. When Great Britain began to decolonise its Indian ...

In a joint statement with Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth, Keir Starmer said that Mauritius will take control of the islands, ...

After decades of wrangling over the fate of the Chagos Islands ... The Diego Garcia atoll - the biggest of the islands, which covers just 10 square miles of dry land - serves as a strategically ...

Mauritius gained independence in 1968, but the Chagos Islands, an inseparable part of Mauritius, became a part of what came to be known as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), a new English ...

The Government announced that the UK will hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... agitating for sovereignty over this distant atoll? We may never know; but it leaves Britain ...