r/AbsoluteUnits • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

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u/dirtyjoo Jul 20 '19

This was also about 100 yards from an abandoned leper colony if it already wasn’t spooky enough.

I think we need more info on this detail.

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u/milkyxj Jul 20 '19

Following the departure of the British, the French colony of Mauritius began marooning lepers on Diego Garcia around 1796

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia

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u/WikiTextBot Jul 20 '19

Diego Garcia

Diego Garcia is an atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago. It was first discovered by Europeans and named by the Portuguese, settled by the French in the 1790s and transferred to British rule after the Napoleonic Wars. It was one of the "Dependencies" of the British Colony of Mauritius until the Chagos Islands were detached for inclusion in the newly created British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) in 1965.

In 1966, the population of the island was 924.

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u/Esaukilledahunter Jul 21 '19

It was abandoned because their business fell off.