Coral Shine
Guesthouse island in Gaafu Alifu. Its reef is measured from satellite; guest reviews live on the booking sites.
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House reef & underwater
Coral Shine · Gaafu Alifu · a shared island reef
Average house reef
Reef Conditions · top 95% of the 297 reefs we have measured
Shore entry Measured
~429 m across the lagoon to the drop-off — a genuine swim, not a wade.
Living cover Measured
About 17% of the mapped reef reads as living coral or algae from satellite.
Heat history Measured
Peak heat stress 5.06 DHW since the imagery, 1 bleaching-alert year on record (2016).
From satellite this reef reads Average — roughly 17% 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).
No atoll-level wildlife study exists for Gaafu Alifu that we can cite — so we assert nothing here, rather than guess.
We only list what the evidence supports for this atoll — nothing is claimed by inference.
Photos
Where it is
0.44180, 73.56873The pin is the island centroid from our geocoding, not the building — properties on the same island share it. Satellite imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics.