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British Indian Ocean Territory

Diego Garcia is in the Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory), south of the equator in the Indian Ocean. It sits on the same submarine ridge as the Maldives and the Laccadives. The atoll is totally different in structure from others in the northern Indian Ocean. The structure is closer to Pacific Ocean atolls......

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