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in Fouquet (0.45 km, 0.17 sq mi) and Takamaka (0.48 km, 0.19 sq mi) Islands. Île de la Passe is 0.28 km (0.11 sq mi) in area, and Île Mapou 0.04 km (0.02 sq mi). The remaining islets are much smaller. The total land area is 3.56 km
278:. Île Boddam had a jetty, shops, offices, a school, a church and a villa where the plantation manager lived. All these buildings are now hidden by thick jungle. There are wells on Boddam and Takamaka islands which are still used by yachtsmen to replenish their supplies. 185:. The main islands in the group are Île Boddam, with the former main settlement, and a land area of 1.08 km (0.42 sq mi), and Île Anglaise (0.82 km, 0.32 sq mi), both on the western rim of the reef. There were smaller settlements of 471: 655: 201:
passing through the Chagos, even though there are no proper moorings for yachts and a permit of the BIOT authorities is needed. Now uninhabited, the islands are overrun by low
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Between 1967 and 1973, 500 inhabitants of the Salomon Islands were evicted by the British and their pets were killed in gas chambers by
248:. Moresby's survey produced the first detailed map of this atoll. The atoll was surveyed again in 1905 by Commander B.T. Sommerville on 115: 49: 259:, but at the time that the British Government decided to empty the Chagos of local inhabitants, only Île Boddam was inhabited. 96: 162: 53: 68: 439: 75: 444: 218: 42: 82: 234: 64: 349: 572: 484: 401:
Eviction from the Chagos Islands: Displacement and Struggle for Identity Against Two World Powers
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This atoll was settled in the last half of the 18th century by coconut plantation workers from
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1st Report for 2007: Thailand, Malaysia, Maldives and Chagos (1 Feb – 22 May)
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The individual islets of the atoll are, starting in the North, clockwise:
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trees and it is hard to find the traces of the former settlements.
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origin. Most probably they lived in conditions close to
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The Salomon Islands were surveyed in 1837 by Commander
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atoll
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British Indian Ocean Territory
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Blenheim Reef
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Isle de France
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