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Makunudhoo

Makunudhoo as a place name may refer to:* Makunudhoo * Makunudhoo...

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Makunudhoo (Dhivehi

Dhivehi language

Maldivian is an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by about 350,000 people in the Maldives where it is the national language. It is also the first language of nearly 10,000 people in the island of Minicoy in the Union territory of Lakshadweep, India where the Mahl dialect of the Maldivian...

: މަކުނުދޫ) is one of the inhabited islands of Haa Dhaalu Atoll

Haa Dhaalu Atoll

Haa Dhaalu Atoll - officially referred as Thiladhunmathi Dhekunuburi is an administrative division of the Maldives...

 administrative division and geographically part of Māmakunudhoo Atoll (Malcolm Atoll) in the north of the Maldives

Maldives

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. It is the western most inhabited island in the Maldives.

Historically, several ships have been wrecked on the tracherous reefs surrounding the island. The most famous wreck was that of the English spice ship Hayston in July 1891. Several tons of cloves were salvaged and later distributed to the military and aristocrats in Male'. Makunudhoo is also famous as the island where Vazir Ibrahim Famuladeyri Takurufaanu who plotted to assassinate Sultan Muhammed Ghiya'as ud-din was exiled to in 1767. However along with other plotters of the assassination he escaped to Chandannagar

Chandannagar

Chandannagar, formerly known as Chandernagore or Chandernagar , is a small city and former French colony located north of Kolkata, in West Bengal, India. It is head quarters of a subdivision in Hooghly District. It is one of the 6 municipal corporations in West Bengal. It is a part of the area...

 where they got protection from the french governor Monsieur Le Termellier. King Giyasudeen sent a number of gifts and a letter to the governor of Sri Lanka and asked him to arrest the men and return them to Maldives. The governor ignored this request.

Malcolm Atoll

This island is the only inhabited island in Māmakunudhoo or Makunudhoo Atoll (Malcolm Atoll in the Admiralty Chart

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). This atoll has a large reef with lagoon, 15 miles long by only 3 miles broad. It has only one inhabited island and a small islet and it lies 10 miles west of the NW part of the Miladhummadulhu group. It is said to have been unknown to non-Maldivians previous to the 1834-36 survey of the Maldives. According to the locals, many ships have been lost on its barren reefs with crew, cargo and all, scarcely a vestige of the wrecks remaining after a few hours, from the violence of the surf and the perpendicular sides of the reef. The lagoon is deep but full of coral patches (giri).

In the Admiralty Chart this atoll is named after Sir Charles Malcolm, commander of the Bombay Marine (re-named the Indian Navy

Indian Navy

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 in 1832). Malcolm had the vision to introduce steam navigation to the Red Sea

Red Sea

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, which would enable boats to navigate up the Gulf of Suez

Suez

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. He was instrumental in making sure that the surveys conducted by Commander Robert Moresby

Robert Moresby

Robert Moresby was a distinguished captain of the British Royal Navy. He was also an excellent hydrographer, maritime surveyor and draughtsman....

 in the Maldives

Maldives

The Maldives , , officially Republic of Maldives , also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls oriented north-south off India's Lakshadweep islands, between Minicoy Island and...

took place.All these are fake story..... no one knows about Makunudhoo, they already had a glorious memories.