Maldives: Top Photos

A thousand coral atolls barely above the Indian Ocean's surface

Aerial view of Island
From above, every Maldivian island looks like this: a ring of pale reef shallows, a fringe of palms, and open ocean in every direction. It's the landscape that makes the one-island-one-resort model make perfect sense. © Ibrahim Asad, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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