including the largest atoll structure in the world, the Great Chagos Bank with a total area of 13,000 km2. Are you starting to get a picture of the potential of this place in surfing terms?

quoted by Mr. Darwin in his book on “Coral Reefs,” the flat surface of the rim of the Great Chagos Bank is barren of living corals, just as are the shore reefs of the neighbouring atoll of ...

The Great Chagos Bank is the largest coral atoll in the world. The islands are a paradise of refuge for turtles, manta rays and sharks; even more important are the massive reef systems they host. In ...

DIEGO GARCIA is a typical atoll; a narrow strip of land varying in width from a mile to 30 yards, nearly completely encircles a lagoon of irregular shape. The lagoon is open to the ocean towards ...

The unique reefs and coral atolls, which include the Great Chagos Bank, the world's largest coral atoll, are in exceptionally good condition. Andrew Griffith MP said: "Labour's Chagos deal betrays ...

After decades of wrangling over the fate of the Chagos Islands ... The Diego Garcia atoll - the biggest of the islands, which covers just 10 square miles of dry land - serves as a strategically ...

The Chagos Archipelago, a collection of atolls, including Earth's largest - the Great Chagos Bank- is home to reefs that have been largely undisturbed by humans for the last 50 years. Some ...

The British government is to hand over sovereignty of the disputed Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a historic deal after years of negotiations, it has emerged. This includes the tropical atoll of ...

In the early 1960s, British and American diplomats conspired to establish a military base on Diego Garcia, the largest atoll of the Chagos Archipelago. The island was attractive for a number of ...

In the late 1960s, thousands of indigenous inhabitants of the Chagos Islands, an atoll in the Indian Ocean, were forced by the United States and the United Kingdom to leave their homeland to make ...