Agale 1519 Atlas Miller, Pedro Reiner [1]https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55002605w/f2.item# Gale 1519 Carte du Monde Jorge Reinel, Sevilla [2]https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b59055673/f1.item Y. de la Gale 1525 Planisfero Castiglioni: Carta del navigare universalissima et dil.

gentilissima, Sevilla [3]https://edl.beniculturali.it/beu/850013656 Y. de la Galera 1548 Africa Nova tabula Gioan.

Baptista Pedrezano Venecia [4]https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~291327~90063055 Y. de la galera 1570 Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598 Africae Tabula Nova.Pb.

Cloppenburgh, Amsterdam [7] Y. de la Galera 1599 Africa Nuova tavola, Ruscelli, Girolamo; Rosaccio, Giuseppe; Appresso gli heredi di Melchior Sessa; Venecia [8] I. du Gallega: 1607 "Abissinorum Sive Pretiosi Ioannis Imperiu" Cornelis Claes, Amsterdam [9] I. d. Gale 1665 Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673 Africae nova descriptio Pb Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam [10] As with the Mascarene islands, these islands may have been known to Arab and Malay sailors, although no written records have been found to confirm this.

Agalega, or Galega, was examined by Captain Briggs of HMS Clorinde, on 12 January 1811, who seems to have fixed its location accurately, which was previously not the case.

A former French privateer was, at this time, settled on the island, having under him a colony of negroes, who cultivated part of the land[7] with maize and wheat.

Upon his arrival in August 1808, he discovered the bodies of two castaways and a bottle containing notes written by one of them, the privateer Robert Dufour.

Economic, infrastructural and political development of the islands did not begin until the arrival of Auguste Le Duc in 1827, a French administrator sent by M. Barbé to organise production of coconut oil and copra.

Auguste Le Duc also began construction of a bridge between the two islands, although it was swept away by severe weather.

Legends such as "Calèche Blanc" and "Princesse Malgache" are part of the folklore of the islands, as well as the coded language of "Madam langaz Seret" which has come down from the time of slavery.

This language is a mixture of French and Mauritian Creole where every syllable is doubled with the first consonants replaced by the "g" (e.g. "Français" becomes "frangrançaisgais").

[12][13][14] These recent infrastructural developments by India, for civil and military use, have significantly transformed the islands' landscape.

In the Chagos' case, the financial costs in 1965 were estimated at £10 million (approximately £250 million today) excluding the United States' secret contribution to the BIOT enterprise via the waiving of costs associated with Britain's nuclear weapons acquisitions.

Acquiring Agaléga would have increased Britain's financial burden, at a time when it was winding down its vast empire and reigning in its defense spending.