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!

Got a photo of DG you'd like to share with the World?
Send it to me and I'll try to get it on the site.

Don't forget to go to Google Earth and take a look too.
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:

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.

THE AIRFIELD THEN (1973)

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 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:

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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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