Active duty military couples are not allowed simultaneous assignments to Diego Garcia. There is a total of 2, people on the island, joint forces military and over 2, civilians. Diego Garcia is exclusively a military installation located on a small host country atoll in the Chagos Archipelago. The heavily vegetated island has an area of 6, acres. The average elevation is four feet above sea level.
The maximum elevation is 22 feet. This island is horseshoe shaped with a perimeter of approximately 40 miles. Diego Garcia is a living coral atoll; the coral reefs and island are made up of trillions of living organisms.
Once an ancient volcano, all that is left is the atoll surrounding a central lagoon. Thanks to its tropical location and heavy rainfall about inches per year , the island is heavily vegetated with coconut palm and ironwood trees.
Diego Garcia has limited resources, they do have a base operator but it's only accessible on base, security is available 24 hours a day at DSN or internationally at or on our homepage. Personally owned vehicle are not allowed on the atoll. The primary means of transportation are buses, bicycles, and old-fashioned foot power.
There is a free shuttle bus that runs every 15 minutes a. Buses travel at regular intervals throughout the inhabited areas of the island. Base taxis and government work vehicles also travel DG but are for official use only. Bicycles are very popular but there are certain rules you need to know. Bells or horns are required on bikes and a front white and rear red light are mandatory when riding after dark. Helmets with the chin strap strapped are required when riding at all times.
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Home Passports, travel and living abroad Travel abroad Foreign travel advice. Foreign travel advice British Indian Ocean Territory. Quarantine requirements All new arrivals into the British Indian Ocean Territory are needed to conduct a minimum day quarantine upon arrival, except in very limited circumstances.
Regular entry requirements Permits Access to the British Indian Ocean Territory is restricted and a permit is needed in advance of travel. Print entire guide. Is this page useful? UK, remember your settings and improve government services. We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services. You can change your cookie settings at any time. There are no commercial flights to and from Diego Garcia.
Access is only allowed for those on pre-authorised official duty. See Entry requirements to find out what you will need to do when you arrive in the British Indian Ocean Territory.
Countries may further restrict travel or bring in new rules at short notice, for example due to a new COVID variant. Check with your travel company or airline for any transport changes which may delay your journey home. You may also need to seek treatment there. ROM will see all arrivals isolated in their accommodation for a minimum 10 days. However, the occasion for returning the islands to Mauritius never arose.
For Mauritian leaders, the benefits of sovereignty would include political glory and fiscal bounty. The Chagos dispute is a political hot potato in Mauritius, especially between the Ramgoolam and Jugnauth families, two political dynasties that have alternated in power since For their political rivals — the late Anerood Jugnauth, another former prime minister, and his son Pravind, who has been prime minister since — the Chagos dispute is a way to engage in one-upmanship over the Ramgoolams.
Compared to the Red Sea littorals and countries on the East African coastline — some of which earn millions of dollars by leasing strategic real estate — Mauritius is at a notional loss. On top of that, Djibouti gains economic benefits in ancillary sectors that support thousands of troops. By comparison, the military outpost of Diego Garcia generates zero revenue for Mauritius. The United Kingdom has strategic reasons for maintaining control of the archipelago, despite the unfavorable advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice, losing the U.
General Assembly vote over the opinion, and failing to prove its sovereignty over the islands in an International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas hearing between Mauritius and the Maldives.
While Diego Garcia is technically a joint facility , British troops are not stationed there permanently. As a former shadow of its colonial self, the U. Both the United States and India also have interests at stake in the sovereignty dispute between Mauritius and the United Kingdom. Like British policymakers, American officials see strategic reasons for maintaining the status quo.
This could present an obstacle to deployments of U. Some claim that Mauritius can avoid such restrictions through a contrived interpretation of the treaty, due to ambiguity in its text about port-call timing. Land, does not square with such optimism. However, the U. Senate never ratified those additional protocols. The United Kingdom did sign those same protocols, but it made an explicit exception for the Chagos Archipelago, as it has done for at least eight other environmental and human rights treaties.
Under Mauritian sovereignty, the U.
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