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2020 Sandhaa

Guesthouse island in Shaviyani Atoll. Its reef is measured from satellite; guest reviews live on the booking sites.

Guesthouse islandMilandhoo
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The property at a glance
3
Rooms
Registry
Domestic flight + speedboat
Getting there · ~235 km from Malé
By distance
Shaviyani Atoll · Milandhoo
Setting
Registry
7.5
House reef · Excellent
Measured →
7.5
The Milandhoo island reef · shared by 2
Excellent — 355 m to the drop-off, 49% coral or algae cover
The full reef, and how we measured it →
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What we add
Guest reviews rate the whole stay. The reef is the part no booking site measures — and the one thing we score ourselves.
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Snorkelling & marine life

House reef & underwater

2020 Sandhaa · Shaviyani Atoll · a shared island reef

7.5

Excellent house reef

Reef Conditions · top 13% of the 297 reefs we have measured


Shore entry Measured

~355 m across the lagoon to the drop-off — a genuine swim, not a wade.

Living cover Measured

About 49% of the mapped reef reads as living coral or algae from satellite.

Heat history Measured

Peak heat stress 6.54 DHW since the imagery, 1 bleaching-alert year on record (2016).

From satellite this reef reads Excellent — roughly 49% living cover. We have not surveyed it in the water, so fish counts and big-encounter ratings stay pending. We don't estimate them.

Reef data modelled from Allen Coral Atlas benthic & geomorphic maps (CC BY 4.0) and NOAA Coral Reef Watch. No in-water survey — every figure above is a measurement. Marine icons: game-icons.net (CC BY 3.0).

Documented in Shaviyani Atollcited

Bottlenose wedgefish

Recorded year-round at Maroshi Thila over more than a decade — a critically endangered species, with courtship possibly running August to February.

Year-roundSourceIUCN SSC 2023
Not established here honest

Turtles — no atoll-level seasonal study exists; treat them as year-round residents rather than a season

Reef sharks — no atoll-level seasonal data

Mantas and whale sharks — no assessed area in this atoll

Where it is

6.28726, 73.24514

The pin is the island centroid from our geocoding, not the building — properties on the same island share it. Satellite imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics.