High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Chagos Archipelago (pron.: /?t????o?s/ or /?t?????s/; formerly Bassas de Chagas and later also Oil Islands, known as Foalhavahi (????????) in Dhivehi, as Phehandweep (?????????) in Hindi and other North Indian languages, and as Paeikaana Theevukal (????? ???????) in Tamil), is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean; situated some 500 kilometres (310 mi) due south of the Maldives archipelago. This chain of islands are 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 544,000 square kilometres (210,000 sq mi)), an area twice the size of the UK's land surface....

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