Varu Island Resort
Resort in Malé Atoll. Its reef is measured from satellite; guest reviews live on the booking sites.
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House reef & underwater
Varu Island Resort · Malé Atoll · a house reef
Good house reef
Reef Conditions · top 73% of the 297 reefs we have measured
Shore entry Measured
~241 m across the lagoon to the drop-off — a genuine swim, not a wade.
Living cover Measured
About 20% of the mapped reef reads as living coral or algae from satellite.
Heat history Measured
Peak heat stress 3.65 DHW since the imagery, 1 bleaching-alert year on record (2016).
From satellite this reef reads Good — roughly 20% 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
Photos
Where it is
4.50048, 73.36845The pin is the island centroid from our geocoding, not the building — properties on the same island share it. Satellite imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics.