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BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY
Established as a territory of the UK in 1965, a number of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) islands were
transferred to the Seychelles when it attained independence in 1976.
Subsequently, the BIOT has consisted only of the six main island groups comprising
the Chagos Archipelago. The largest and most southerly of the islands, Diego Garcia,
contains a joint UK-US naval support facility. All of the remaining islands are
uninhabited.
Former agricultural workers, earlier residents in the islands, were relocated
primarily to Mauritius but also to the Seychelles,
between 1967 and 1973. In 2000, a British High Court ruling invalidated the local
immigration order that had excluded them from the archipelago, but upheld the
special military status of Diego Garcia.
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