* Astronomy

The Chagos Archipelago (formerly, Oil Islands) is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical islands roughly in the centre of the Indian Ocean.
The Chagos lies about 500 km  due south of the Maldives, its nearest neighbour, 1600 km southwest of India, half way between Tanzania and Java.

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Families evicted from their homes on an island in the Indian Ocean lost their long-running battle to return yesterday when the law lords ruled by a majority of three to two in favour of the Foreign Office.
The islanders, some of whom had travelled from their current home in Mauritius to hear the decision, were removed from the Chagos archipelago to accommodate the US military base on Diego Garcia in the 1970s.

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Latitude:    5°20'17.07"S, Longitude:  72°15'23.15"E