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Western Indian Ocean. Bajuni Islands (Somalia) Bazaruto Archipelago (Mozambique) Chagos Archipelago (including Diego Garcia) (UK transitioning to Mauritius) Comoros. Khuriya Muriya Islands (Oman) Lakshadweep Archipelago (India) Lamu Archipelago (Kenya) Madagascar.
4 Indian Ocean. Toggle Indian Ocean subsection. 4.1 Along the coast of Africa. ... Beaver Archipelago; Channel Islands; Dome Islands; Lake Erie Islands; Hen and ...
The Chagos Archipelago (/ ˈtʃɑːɡəs, - ɡoʊs /) or Chagos Islands (formerly the Bassas de Chagas, [2] and later the Oil Islands) is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean about 500 kilometres (310 mi) south of the Maldives archipelago. This chain of islands is the southernmost archipelago of the Chagos ...
Subcategories. This category has the following 23 subcategories, out of 23 total. Archipelagoes of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (2 C, 16 P) Archipelagoes of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (3 C, 3 P) Archipelagoes of the Maldives (1 P) Archipelagoes of Mozambique (2 C, 3 P) Archipelagoes of Seychelles (3 C, 11 P)
Mascarene Islands. The Mascarene Islands (English: / mæskəˈriːn /, French: Mascareignes) or Mascarenes or Mascarenhas Archipelago is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of islands belonging to the Republic of Mauritius as well as the French department of La Réunion. Their name derives from the Portuguese ...
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 kilometres (23 square miles). [3]
The Chagos Archipelago of 70 tiny islands and atolls is located in the central Indian Ocean, about 1,500 km from the southern tip of India, 3,400 km due east of Africa and 3,000 km west of Indonesia. Politically, Chagos is constituted as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). [14]
The Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu Kokos [Keeling]), officially the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands (/ ˈ k oʊ k ə s /; [5] [6] Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu Kokos [Keeling]), are an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean, comprising a small archipelago approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka and relatively close to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.