The British Indian Ocean Territory is a British Overseas Territory situated in the Indian Ocean. The territory comprises the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islands,
Views of the Chagos Archipelago from lieutenant Archibald Blair, 1787.
Nautical chart of the Chagos Archipelago from captain of the East India Company's Indian Navy Robert Moresby, 1837.
Royal Air Force base at Diego Garcia during World War II.
British diplomatic cable signed by D.A. Greenhill, 1966, relating to the depopulation of the Chagos Archipelago.
Misley Mandarin
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Louis Misley Mandarin is a British Chagossian politician and self-proclaimed Interim First Minister of the unrecognized Chagossian Government.
Royal Marines Major Pete Goddard, as Acting Principal Immigration Officer of BIOT, ordered Mandarin's removal from the territory, on 18 February 2026.
Chief Justice of BIOT, James Lewis, granted the settlers a temporary injunction against the removal notices, on 19 February 2026.