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Chagos Archipelago:

The Chagos Archipelago (/ˈtʃɑːɡoʊs/ or /ˈtʃɑːɡəs/; formerly Bassas de Chagas and later also Oil Islands, is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean; situated some 500 km due south of the Maldives archipelago. This chain of islands is the southernmost archipelago of the Chagos-Laccadive Ridge, a long submarine mountain range in the Indian Ocean. The Chagos also form a terrestrial ecoregion together with the Maldives and the Lakshadweep. The islands and their surrounding waters are also a vast oceanic Environment Preservation and Protection Zone (EPPZ) (Fisheries Conservation and Management Zone (FCMZ) of 544000 km2), an area twice the size of the UK's land surface.

查戈斯群岛:

查戈斯群岛（Chagos Archipelago），是印度洋中部的一个群岛，由7个环礁共60餘岛组成，位于马尔代夫正南方约500公里处，目前是英属印度洋领地的主要组成部分。