Simon Winchester
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Simon Winchester is a British-American author and journalist. In his career at The Guardian newspaper, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal
Winchester in 2013
Diego Garcia
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Diego Garcia is the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago. It has been used as a joint UK–U.S. military base since the 1970s, following the expulsion of the Chagossians by the UK government. The Ch
Simon Winchester
…Emergence of a New World Culture having been published in 1991. Before this, in the mid-1980s, Winchester managed to set foot on the secretive island of Diego Garcia (which is the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago in the British Indian Ocean Territory). Winchester pretended that his boat had run into trouble…
Aerial photograph of Diego Garcia
Coconut plantation, East Point (former main settlement)
An unnamed Chagossian photographed by a US National Geodetic Survey team in 1971
Barachois Maurice, Diego Garcia