The Great Chagos Bank, in the Chagos Archipelago, about 500 km (310 mi) South of the Maldives, is the largest atoll structure in the world, with a total area of 12,642 km2 (4,881 sq mi). The Atoll is administered by the United Kingdom through the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
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“I have passed down the river before sunrise on a summer morning, between fields of lilies still shut in sleep; and when, at length, the flakes of sunlight from over the bank fell on the surface of the water, whole fields of white blossoms seemed to flash open before me, as I floated along, like the unfolding of a banner, so sensible is this flower to the influence of the sun’s rays.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)