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Deportation/exile of the Chagos Islanders

 

Source: Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin {254kb.jpg} (a larger image, retrieved January 24 2005).

This image: Diego Garcia (map, scale: 1:135,000) (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, “504588 12-80,” December 1980), with an inset map entitled British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago) (map, scale, roughly: 1:2,600,000) {SuDoc: PREX 3.10/4:D 56, LCCN: 86690364, OCLC: 11433687, GPOCat, LL: paper, DL, WorldCat}.

This image is a “U.S. Government work” and, hence, not copyrighted. “Most of the maps scanned by the University of Texas Libraries and served from this web site are in the public domain. No permissions are needed to copy them. You may download them and use them as you wish. A few maps are copyrighted, and are clearly marked as such.” (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin, FAQ-3, visited, January 24 2005, July 6 2006, March 1 2008).

This document and image may be freely copied.

Charles Judson Harwood Jr.

Posted Dec. 14 2002. Updated June 7 2008.

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