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Avanti Vaadhoo

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

Guesthouse islandVaadhoo
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The property at a glance
5
Rooms
Registry
Domestic flight + speedboat
Getting there · ~442 km from Malé
By distance
Gaafu Dhaalu · Vaadhoo
Setting
Registry
4.2
House reef · Average
Measured →
4.2
The Vaadhoo island reef · shared by 2
Average — 578 m to the drop-off, 22% 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

Avanti Vaadhoo · Gaafu Dhaalu · a shared island reef

4.2

Average house reef

Reef Conditions · top 98% of the 297 reefs we have measured


Shore entry Measured

~578 m across the lagoon to the drop-off — a genuine swim, not a wade.

Living cover Measured

About 22% of the mapped reef reads as living coral or algae from satellite.

Heat history Measured

Peak heat stress 2.69 DHW since the imagery, 1 bleaching-alert year on record (2016).

From satellite this reef reads Average — roughly 22% 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 Gaafu Dhaalucited

No atoll-level wildlife study exists for Gaafu Dhaalu that we can cite — so we assert nothing here, rather than guess.

Not established here honest

We only list what the evidence supports for this atoll — nothing is claimed by inference.

Where it is

0.22714, 73.27326

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.