Bancoult v McNamara challenged the removal of Chagosians from what atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, which is the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago?
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Bancoult v McNamara Bancoult v McNamara was a 2006 legal case in which Olivier Bancoult challenged the removal of Chagosians from Diego Garcia when the United States of America built a military base in British Indian Ocean Territory. The court ruled that the case raised nonjusticiable political questions and dismissed the case.
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Diego Garcia Diego Garcia is an atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago. It was settled by the French in the 1790s and was transferred to British rule after the Napoleonic Wars. It was one of the "Dependencies" of the British Colony of Mauritius until it was detached for inclusion in the newly created British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) in 1965. Between 1968 and 1973, the population was forcibly removed by the United Kingdom and the United States (in order to establish an American base) through intimidation of locals and denying the return of any who left the island. Many were deported to Mauritius and Seychelles, following which the United States built a large naval and military base on Diego Garcia, which has been in continuous operation ever since. s of 2015 , Diego Garcia is the only inhabited island of the BIOT; the population is composed of military personnel and supporting contractors.
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Tizard Bank The Tizard Bank, , in Chinese known as 郑和群礁 and "Zhenghe Qunjiao", is a partially sunken atoll and one of the significant maritime features of the north-western part of the Spratly Islands. It is claimed by the China, Taiwan and Vietnam, and various parts of it are occupied by these nations.
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Mascarene Islands The Mascarene Islands ( ) or Mascarenhas Archipelago is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues. The collective title is derived from the Portuguese navigator Pedro Mascarenhas, who first visited them in the early sixteenth century. The islands share a common geologic origin in the volcanism of the Réunion hotspot beneath the Mascarene Plateau and form a distinct ecoregion with a unique flora and fauna.
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Serrana Bank The Serrana Bank is an atoll in the Atlantic Ocean. It is mostly an underwater reef of about 50 km long and 13 km wide and has six cays, or islets, the most prominent of which is Southwest Cay.
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Pratas Islands The Pratas Islands, also known as the Dongsha Islands, are an atoll in the north of the South China Sea consisting of three islets about 340 km southeast of Hong Kong. Excluding their associated EEZ and territorial waters, the islets comprise about 240 ha , including 64 ha of lagoon area. The People's Republic of China claims the islands, but the Republic of China (Taiwan) controls them and has declared them a national park. The main island of the group— Pratas Island— is the largest of the South China Sea Islands.
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Marshall Islands The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Marshallese: "Aolepān Aorōkin M̧ajeļ" ), is an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date Line. Geographically, the country is part of the larger island group of Micronesia. The country's population of 53,158 people (at the 2011 Census) is spread out over 29 coral atolls, comprising 1,156 individual islands and islets.
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Likiep Atoll Likiep Atoll (Marshallese: Likiep , ) is a coral atoll of 65 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. It is approximately 55 km northwest of Wotje. Its total land area is only 10.26 km2 , but that encloses a deep central lagoon of 424 km2 . Likiep Atoll also possesses the Marshall Islands' highest point, an unnamed knoll 10 m above sea level. The population of Likiep Atoll was 482 in 1998.
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Line Islands The Line Islands, Teraina Islands or Equatorial Islands, is a chain of atolls (with partially or fully enclosed lagoons) and coral islands (with a surrounding reef). Kingman Reef is a largely submerged and Filippo Reef is shown on some maps, although its existence is doubted. The islands were formed by volcanic activity and are located in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the Hawaiian Islands. The 11 islands stretch for 2,350 km in a northwest–southeast direction, making it one of the longest island chains of the world. Eight of the islands form part of Kiribati, while the remaining three are United States territories grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands. Only Kiritimati and Tabuaeran atolls and Teraina Island have a permanent population.
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Glorioso Islands The Glorieuses or Glorioso Islands (French: "Îles Glorieuses" or officially also "Archipel des Glorieuses") are a group of French islands and rocks totalling 5 km2 , at , in the Indian Ocean, about 160 km northwest of Madagascar. In 2012, France founded "parc naturel marin des Glorieuses", a marine protected area, to preserve the endangered flora and fauna of the islands. The Glorieuses have an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 48350 km2 . There are anchorages offshore, and Grande Glorieuse has a 1300 m long airstrip.
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Petite Terre Islands Petite Terre Islands (French: "Îles de la Petite Terre" , literally "Islands of the Small Land") are two small uninhabited islands located about 10 km to the south-east of the island of Grande-Terre (Guadeloupe), in the Lesser Antilles. These two islands are named Petite Terre ("Small Land") in contrast with the much larger Grande-Terre ("Large Land") island.
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Amphiprion chagosensis Amphiprion chagosensis, (Chagos anemonefish), is a marine fish belonging to the family Pomacentridae, the clownfishes and damselfishes. It is named for the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean and it is endemic to the archipelago. The original specimens were collected at Diego Garcia Atoll, Chagos Archipelago.
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Geography of Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha is an archipelago of five islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean, the largest of which is the island of Tristan da Cunha itself and the second-largest the remote bird haven Gough Island. It forms part of a wider territory called Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which includes Saint Helena and Ascension Island.
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Huvadhu Atoll Huvadhu is sometimes referred to as the largest atoll of the Maldives. The fact is, however, that it is the second largest natural atoll, taking into account that Thiladhunmathi Atoll and Miladhunmadulu Atoll together stand for the largest. Even so, with an area of 3152 km², land area 38.5 km², Huvadhu is 10th largest atoll in the world, larger than Ontong Java Atoll and Lihou Reef in the SW Pacific area. On its reef rim are many inhabited islands.
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Batu Islands The Batu Islands are an archipelago of Indonesia located in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra, between Nias and Siberut. The three primary islands, of approximately equal size, are Pini, Tanahmasa, and Tanahbala. There are forty-eight smaller islands, of which the largest are Sipika, Simuk, Bodjo, Telo and Sigata; less than half are inhabited. The islands are governed as a part of South Nias regency within North Sumatra province. In Indonesian and Malay, "batu" means "rock" or "stone".
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Geography of the Marquesas Islands The Marquesas Islands are the island group farthest from any continent in the world, lying between 400 and 600 miles (600 and 1,000 km) south of the equator and approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) northeast of Tahiti. They fall naturally into two geographical divisions: the northern group, consisting of Eïao, Hatutu (Hatutaa), Motu One, and the islands centered on the large island of Nuku Hiva: Motu Iti (Hatu Iti), Ua Pou, Motu Oa and Ua Huka, and the southern group of Fatu Uku, Tahuata, Moho Tani (Motane), Terihi, Fatu Hiva and Motu Nao (Thomasset Rock), clustered around the main island of Hiva `Oa.
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Ecuador Ecuador ( , ] ) (Quechua: "Ikwadur" ), officially the Republic of Ecuador (Spanish: "República del Ecuador" , which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: "Ikwadur Ripuwlika" ), is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Ecuador also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1000 km west of the mainland.
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Diego Garcia (disambiguation) Diego Garcia is an atoll in the Chagos Archipelago, a part of the British Indian Ocean Territory.
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South Reef Island South Reef Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the North and Middle Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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Vanua Levu Vanua Levu (pronounced ] ), formerly known as Sandalwood Island, is the second largest island of Fiji. Located 64 km to the north of the larger Viti Levu, the island has an area of 5587.1 km² and a population of 135,961 as of 2007 .
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Faraulep Faraulep Atoll is a coral atoll of three islands in the central Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district in Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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Moruroa Moruroa (Mururoa, Mururura), also historically known as Aopuni, is an atoll which forms part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is located about 1250 km southeast of Tahiti. Administratively Moruroa Atoll is part of the commune of Tureia, which includes the atolls of Tureia, Fangataufa, Tematangi and Vanavana. France undertook nuclear weapon tests between 1966 and 1996 at Moruroa and Fangataufa, causing international protests, notably in 1974 and 1995. The number of tests performed have been variously reported as 175 and 181.