Maldive

Fantastic islands to visit, with paradisiacal beaches and beautiful luxury resorts overlooking the ocean. The beauty of unspoiled places can be found in particular on the wonderful atollsof the archipelago. In addition, there are interesting museums to visit on the islands. The Maldives are also perfect for indulging in water sports and diving. The archipelago is made up of 1,192 coral islands resting on bases of limestone and coral, formed with periodic evolutions and characterized by multiple layers of limestone and corals formed with the numerous variations in water level starting about 60 million years ago, following the emergence of towering mountains from the bottom of the Indian Ocean. The atolls of the Maldivian archipelago are in fact among the most evident traces of the volcanic activity of the Réunion hotspot, a hotspot currently located under the island of Réunion, in the archipelago of the Mascarene islands.
There are 26 natural atolls, each consisting of several hundred islands, of which only some are inhabited. In the entire archipelago, the inhabited islands are about 200, while just over 100 are used as tourist villages; the rest are deserted and sometimes consist only of an emerging sand bank. The largest island is Fua Mulaku, located in the Gnaviyani atoll, in the south of the archipelago.
The islands are located both within the atolls and along the ocean barrier that delimits the atoll separating it from the deep ocean waters and protecting the inland waters from storm surges. The oceanic barriers are interrupted by channels called pass (kandu in dhivehi) which allow the exchange of the internal waters of the atoll, however causing strong currents in and out, especially during the tides. In addition to that, almost all of the islands are surrounded by their own coral reef which encloses a lagoon.
The islands are formed by a base of white sand resulting from the erosion of coral reefs by the sea, but also of some fish species (such as the parrotfish or the titan triggerfish) that eat the coral to return it in the form of sand together. with feces; the maximum elevation is 2 m a.s.l., there are no freshwater springs and only in the larger islands is it possible to dig wells to collect the water filtered by the sand layers. Freshwater lakes are found on the island of Fua Mulaku.

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