Island Ambience
Guesthouse island in Malé Atoll. Its reef is measured from satellite; guest reviews live on the booking sites.
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House reef & underwater
Island Ambience · Malé Atoll · a shared island reef
Very Good house reef
Reef Conditions · top 34% of the 297 reefs we have measured
Shore entry Measured
~225 m across the lagoon to the drop-off — a genuine swim, not a wade.
Living cover Measured
About 36% of the mapped reef reads as living coral or algae from satellite.
Heat history Measured
Peak heat stress 4.41 DHW since the imagery, 1 bleaching-alert year on record (2016).
From satellite this reef reads Very Good — roughly 36% 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).
Reef manta ray
Bodu Hithi Kandu on the western side is a northeast-monsoon feeding area; Lankan Beyru on the east is assessed as a reproductive area, with no published season.
Grey reef & whitetip reef sharks
Recorded in the southern channels through both monsoons.
Turtles — no atoll-level seasonal study exists; treat them as year-round residents rather than a season
Anything reef-specific — this is a large, heavily developed atoll and the assessments cover particular channels, not the whole of it
Where it is
3.94116, 73.48993The pin is the island centroid from our geocoding, not the building — properties on the same island share it. Satellite imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics.