Paradise Found: Deserted Islands Amid the Indian Ocean

Where on Earth?
Chagos Archipelago
GPS Coordinates: 6°0′S 71°30′E

For millennia, the coralline rock outcrops now known as the Chagos islands existed in almost total isolation – alone and geologically adrift on the empty Indian Ocean. Too far east of the Seychelles and too far south of the Maldives to be settled, they served as distant life-rafts for lost fisherman and travellers as the other territories slowly evolved into thriving cultures.…