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| dBase IV DBT of DEPTXT_U.DBF, block length 512, next free block index 102, field length 435, 1st used item "<P>The British Indian Ocean Territory, or Chagos Islands, lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The coral atolls, previously "
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