The tropical Indian Ocean is home to the Spice Islands. Characterised by beautiful sandy beaches, fringing coral reefs and coastal mangrove forests, this is a vibrant nursery area for marine life ...

The tropical Indian Ocean is home to the Spice Islands. Characterised by beautiful sandy beaches, fringing coral reefs and coastal mangrove forests, this is a vibrant nursery area for marine life ...

The Indian Ocean, famous for its turquoise waters and ... such as the Maldives and the Seychelles, there are secret islands where nature reigns supreme and visitors can enjoy a rare moment of ...

The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT ... itself comprising over 1,000 individual islands. It was originally part of Mauritius, but separated into its own territory by Britain in 1965.

Few tropical archipelagos are quite as beautiful, remote and appealingly quirky as the Cocos Islands, said Ruaridh Nicoll in the Financial Times (FT). Isolated in the Indian Ocean 660 miles south ...

Diego Garcia is part of the Chagos Islands archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The US’s footprint there can be traced back to the waning days of the British Empire. In the 1960s, Britain was ...

Socotra Archipelago, in the northwest Indian Ocean near the Gulf of Aden, is 250 km long and comprises four islands and two rocky islets which appear as a prolongation of the Horn of Africa. The site ...

Nestled in the middle of the Indian Ocean, North Sentinel Island is still one of the most remote locations on the planet, inhabited by the Sentinelese, a native tribe which has resisted contact ...

India’s move to upgrade its ties with Mauritius is seen as a bid to counter China’s growing influence in the Indian Ocean and reinforce New Delhi’s role as a key security and economic ...