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Revision as of 12:00, November 26, 2008
Diego Garcia is a small tropical island in the Indian Ocean of Earth, about 1,000 miles south of the southern India coast. It has been a military base since the 1970's. In 1971 RAF (British Royal Air Force) Gan was built there. As of sometime during the 1960's, it became a British Indian Ocean Territory and still was during the 21st Century. The UNSC base on the island launched the first counterattacks against the Covenant when they invaded New Mombasa in Kenya, Africa in 2552 during The First Battle of Earth. Among the units to respond was the 405th UNSC Marine Division. During the Second Battle of Earth, a computer screen showed a Covenant capital ship within what is probably firing range of the island. Its fate after the battle is unknown.
Diego Garcia is the main Island of a group of British islands called the Chagos Archipelago.
On November 30, 1983, a magnitude 7 earthquake 34 miles south of the island caused a small tsunami.
The Island is prone to cyclones.
It is the main island of about 60 which is called the Chagos Archipelago
Here is a picture of a bit of Diego Garcia, the place is called Eclipse Point http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/Island_couple.jpg
This picture shows a sunset behind Cannon Point
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Degar_sunset_from_cannon_point.jpg