The PROPEOPDEMREPDG Department
of Aviation Extravaganzas Presents:
Aerial Photos of Diego Garcia...
Get up off your beach chair,
climb in our special photo-recce plane, and enjoy the view!
Show your wife and/or husband and
kids exactly what the durn place really looks like!
Show them exactly where you worked,
fished, snorkeled, and passed out on the beach!
O.K., here's the way this page
is set up -
The latest and greatest photos
(from 2006) are posted full size, but shrunk in visible size (so they'll
fit on the page you're looking at). They are actually much larger,
so if you download the photo, you'll see it in all the glorious detail.
Older photos are shown as thumbnails
- just click on the thumbnails to go to a bigger, clearer photo!
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DG is at 07.18.22S 72.24.45E
DIEGO GARCIA - The Whole Ball of Wax
Here's a 2006 photo, looking South:
Here's one looking North:
Here's a good oblique shot. Click on the thumbnail for a 1400
X 1050 copy:

This is a controlled mosaic compiled by the Naval Reconnaissance and Technical Support Center from January 1965 Photography (pre-buildup). The island probably hadn't changed significantly since it was converted into coconut plantations in the 1700s. Many thanks to Kirby Crawford who writes: "The original measures 28" x 42", and is made up of a large number of aerial photos taken from an aircraft. This was one of the few pieces of information we had about DG before we sailed in for our 1968 - 70 program." The detail photos are of Eclipse Point (now downtown), East Point (the Plantation), and Point Marianne (now the airfield and Camp Justice).
Left Above: Looking Southeast.
Right Above: Looking Northwest.
Left Above: Looking South.
Right Above: Diego Garcia photographed from the Space Shuttle
"Atlantis" (1980s?).
Left Above: Another aerial from the Northeast. From "The
Friends of the Chagos" CD (with permission)
Original photo by 'JETMAN' - "I would have shot it in late 1989
or early 1990 from an SH-2F at an altitude of 10,000 ft. It was about
50 degrees at altitude. Used a Bronica for the negative version.
Also have it in Kodachrome 25 shot with my Leica."
JETMAN also has a great sense of humor. Read his "Tattler"
newsletters for Dodge from that period right on this website!
Right Above: A shot from just about due north.
Left Above: Looking Southwest.
THE "AIRFIELD" NOW (2005)
Camp Justice is the Tent City in the foreground.
Above left: CAG 5 propaganda picture from April 1979. Shows
the original configuration of the airfield before RBRM built the "Space
Shuttle" runway in the early 1980s. They first built an interim runway
(now the taxiway) and then widened the old runway.
Right Above: A Postcard showing the current configuration
runways - taken in the early 1990s.
This is a photo of the main developed part of the island.
Click on it for a huge, very detailed enlargement!
DOWNTOWN NOW (2006)
DOWNTOWN THEN (1973)
Here's "Downtown" September 1973. From
NMCB 74's "Beaver Tale" (via Vidge Villanueva). The caption reads:
"Take one last look at your home for the past eight months, and take a
deep sign, because with any luck at all, you'll never have to see it again.
The camp as shown in this picture will be torn down when the Seabees leave
for good in a few years. As you can see, it was a beautiful place
but easy to leave."
Here's a photo I downloaded off some site - sorry for stealing it!
Downtown, about 1979
Here's a couple more of Cathy's photos (these ones are of Downtown, 1984).
SEABREEZE VILLAGE (2006)
THE PLANTATION
2006:
Here are Vig's pictures of the plantation in 1972:

Here's another CAG 5 propaganda photo - The attack on the plantation,
April 19, 1979:
THE HINTERLANDS:
Here's Turtle Cove and T-Site, 2006:
Below: The "forbidden zone" (Brit Side) taken by Cathy Hines
in 1984. Things were pretty slow in those days, and the NAF Helo
Det would give folks rides around the island for photo shoots.
Here's a photo of the GEODSS Site at the South end:
ETC., ETC.
Here are some shots that are now sold as postcards at the Ship's Store on the island (photos are probably from the early 90's):
Above left is the southeast beach (the point of land on the left is the location of the Plantation), and above right, the Officer's Club (under the trees in the foreground).
Left Above: The Plantation.
Right Above: The Diego Garcia Yacht Club!
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