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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 ...
7 de abr. de 2024 · British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the central Indian Ocean, established in 1965. Since 1976 it has been coterminous with the Chagos Archipelago. Geography. Lying at the centre of the Indian Ocean region and out of the path of cyclonic storms, the territory is strategically located.
The islands of the Chagos Archipelago were uninhabited until the late 18th century, when the French established copra plantations using slave labour in 1793. The islands have been British territory since 1814 when they were ceded to Britain with Mauritius (which then included the Seychelles).
27 de abr. de 2021 · Geography. Map of Asia with the location of the British Indian Ocean Territory marked with a red circle. British Indian Ocean Territory includes all the 55 islands of the Chagos Archipelago and occupies a total land area of 60 km 2 and about 54,340 km 2 of ocean.
15 de may. de 2024 · Formerly administered as part of the British Crown Colony of Mauritius, the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) was established as an overseas territory of the UK in 1965. A number of the islands in the territory were later transferred to the Seychelles when it gained independence in 1976.
About. The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) lies about 1,770km east of Mahe (the main island of the Seychelles). The territory, an archipelago of 58 islands sometimes referred to as the Chagos Archipelago, covers some 640,000 sq km of ocean. The islands have a land area of only 60 sq km and 698km of coastline.
22 de nov. de 2022 · In 1965, the UK created the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), also known as the Chagos Archipelago. From 1968 to 1973, it removed the local population, known as Chagossians or Ilois, for a UK-US military base on the BIOT’s largest island, Diego Garcia.
