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... escape North American winters first developed in Victorian times. Tourism continues to be important to the island's economy, although international business has overtaken it in recent years. Bermuda has developed into ...
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... for international business and luxury facilities for tourists. A number of reinsurance companies relocated to the island following the 11 September 2001 attacks and again after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, contributing ...
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island
... other commodities; an accord placed the long-disputed Isla Su·rez/Ilha de Guajar·-Mirim, a fluvial island on the RĖo MamorČ, under Bolivian administration in 1958, but sovereignty remains in dispute
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... occupied the island the previous year. In 1971, Norway designated Bouvet Island and the adjacent territorial waters a nature reserve. Since 1977, it has run an automated meteorological station on the island
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island in the South Atlantic Ocean, southwest of the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
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Island
conventional long form: none conventional short form: Bouvet Island
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island
... Rio Parana; an accord placed the long-disputed Isla Su·rez/Ilha de Guajar·-Mirim, a fluvial island on the RĖo MamorČ, under Bolivian administration in 1958, but sovereignty remains in dispute
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... Seychelles when it attained independence in 1976. Subsequently, BIOT has consisted only of the six main island groups comprising the Chagos Archipelago. The largest and most southerly of the islands, Diego Garcia ...
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archipelago of 55 islands; Diego Garcia, largest and southernmost island, occupies strategic location in central Indian Ocean; island is site of joint US-UK military facility
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... relocated to Mauritius and the Seychelles in the 1960s and 1970s; in November 2004, approximately 4,000 UK and US military personnel and civilian contractors were living on the island of Diego Garcia
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All economic activity is concentrated on the largest island of Diego Garcia, where a joint UK-US military facility is located. Construction projects and various services needed to support the military installation ...
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... group of Chagossians visited Diego Garcia in April 2006; repatriation is complicated by the exclusive US military lease of Diego Garcia that restricts access to the largest viable island in the chain
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... agree on maritime delimitation in March 2008; sovereignty dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon over an island at the mouth of the Ntem River; only Nigeria and Cameroon have heeded the Lake ...
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