Ari Atoll is one of the largest atolls in the Maldives, and is around 90 km long and 30 km wide. ... will map up to 95% of Earth’s oceans every 10 days.

The Maldives includes about 1,200 coral-reef islands, or atolls, in the Indian Ocean. The reefs sit atop the craters of a string of undersea volcanoes south-southwest of India. The low-lying ...

If you’ve ever dreamed of holidaying on a desert island, you were probably thinking of the Maldives. The 1,192 sand-circled islands that make up this exquisite archipelago sprawl across more ...

Male, November 12: Of the 1192 islands and islets comprising the Maldives archipelago, about 200 are inhabited. The island of Male is the most populated of these, with 262, 925 of a total ...