Eagle Islands

Eagle Islands ( Îles also Aigle, dt called " Eagle Island " ) is an uninhabited group of islands on the western fringing reef of the Great Chagos Bank (Grand Chagosbank ), which has the world's most extensive atoll structure. They belong geographically to the Chagos Archipelago and politically to the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The archipelago is located about 20 kilometers west of the Three Brothers, and consists of:

• Eagle Iceland (Île Aigle, at 6 ° 11 ' S, 71 ° 20' O 6.189722222222271.325833333333 ), the main island, and
• Sea Cow Iceland ( Ile Vache Marine, dt " Manatee Island " at 6 ° 14 ' S, 71 ° 18' O 6.235416666666771.294444444444 ).

The larger of the two islands, Iceland Eagle, poses with a land area of 2.45 km ² to Diego Garcia, the largest land mass in the Chagos Archipelago dar.

On Eagle Iceland there were once coconut plantations and a small chagossianische settlement. When British Captain Robert Moresby 1838, the islands visited, but they were already visited only temporarily by plantation workers. The island is now a nature reserve and part of the Chagos Conservation Management Plan, which has, among other things, the restoration of the original fauna and flora, and thus the eradication of introduced species to the target.

• Uninhabited islands
• Archipelago ( British Indian Ocean Territory )
• Archipelago (Indian Ocean)
• Archipelago without continental reference