Dispatches from every inhabited atoll of the Maldives. Pick an atoll below to read what our correspondent filed this week.
The Atoll Desk files year-round from the twenty natural atolls of the Maldives. Our correspondents are resident on the islands they cover. The desktop version of this page carries an interactive map; on mobile, we give you the list.
From Haa Alif in the north to Seenu in the south, our correspondents file from every atoll group of the Maldives. Click a dot on the chain, or pick an atoll from the index, to read the dispatches that rarely leave the island.
Gaafu Alif has been on the Masnooee Atoll Desk since day one. Our correspondent files twice a week from Villingiliand across the wider atoll — on the council, the harbour, the school, the tide and the stories only your neighbour could tell.