The Great Chagos Bank, spread over 12,642 sq km, is the world’s largest atoll structure. • Although it finds mention in some Maldivian oral traditions, Chagos was uninhabited for most of its history.

I HAVE read with great interest the article on coral formations in your last number (p. 393), by Capt. Wharton. It is not because I wish to claim to have anticipitated the views which he gives as ...

The Great Chagos Bank, spread over 12,642 sq km, is the world’s largest atoll structure. Story continues below this ad (An atoll is a ring-shaped coral reef, island, or series of islets, which ...

Anthea Jeffery says UK's agreement to cede islands to Mauritius should be rethought The Chagos Islands include the Diego Garcia ... for all Western democracies at a time of escalating danger from ...

If Trump is looking to add American territory, why not step into the UK’s farcical negotiations with Mauritius?

In recent years the United Nations and its top court have urged Britain to return the Chagos to Mauritius. In a non-binding 2019 opinion, the International Court of Justice ruled that the U.K. had ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. Britain is seeking to finalize a deal on handing sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after U.S. President Donald Trump said last month that ...

The Chagos islands or Chagos Archipelago is a group of 58 atolls in the Indian Ocean, lying around 2,200km north of Mauritius. Most of these atolls are tiny submerged reefs, but there’s one that ...

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said her party will not stop opposing a deal that would hand over the Chagos Islands, despite it receiving a favourable hearing from US President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump says UK's Chagos Islands talks are 'going to work out very well'. The US President has signalled he could support Labour's £9billion plan to surrender the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

DONALD Trump could yet step in to block Britain’s £8billion handover of the Chagos Islands, Nigel Farage has claimed. The Reform UK chief said he was “surprised” the US President gave the ...