Kudarikilu (Baa Atoll)
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Kudarikilu is one of the inhabited islands of Southern Maalhosmadulhu Atoll
(Baa Atoll
).
(0.137 km² (33.9 acre))http://www.planning.gov.mv/publications/yrb2006/yrb05/yearbook/1%20Geography/1.5.htm. In addition, there are 10 smaller, uninhabited islets on the rim of the atoll. The total land area is about 0.3 km² (74.1 acre). The lagoon becomes narrower towards the west and its average depth is 19 fathoms (34.7 m). The Atoll is separated from North Maalhosmadulhu by a deep channel (Moresby Channel in the Admiralty chart
) and from the southern part of South Maalhosmadulhu by a narrower channel running from east to west.
Southern Maalhosmadulhu Atoll
Southern Maalhosmadulu Atoll is an administrative division of the Maldives. It consists of two separate natural atolls, namely the southern part of Maalhosmadulhu Atoll and the smaller natural atoll known as Goifulhafehendhu Atoll .Situated on the west...
(Baa Atoll
Baa Atoll
Baa Atoll is an administrative division of the Maldives. It consists of three separate natural atolls, namely southern Maalhosmadulu Atoll , the Fasdūtherē Atoll and the smaller...
).
Middle Maalhosmadulhu or Fasdūtherē (Natural Atoll)
The northern part of administrative South Maalhosmadulhu forms a clearly delimited, roughly triangular, natural atoll called Middle Maalhosmadulhu or 'Fasdūtherē' (meaning 'between five islands'), with a total area of 135 km² (52.1 sq mi)[ftp://rock.geosociety.org/pub/reposit/2001/2001075.pdf]. On its southwest corner stands Kudarikilu Island, the only inhabited one of the Middle Maalhosmadulhu Atoll, with an area of 13.7 haHectare
The hectare is a metric unit of area defined as 10,000 square metres , and primarily used in the measurement of land. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as being 100 square metres and the hectare was thus 100 ares or 1/100 km2...
(0.137 km² (33.9 acre))http://www.planning.gov.mv/publications/yrb2006/yrb05/yearbook/1%20Geography/1.5.htm. In addition, there are 10 smaller, uninhabited islets on the rim of the atoll. The total land area is about 0.3 km² (74.1 acre). The lagoon becomes narrower towards the west and its average depth is 19 fathoms (34.7 m). The Atoll is separated from North Maalhosmadulhu by a deep channel (Moresby Channel in the Admiralty chart
Admiralty chart
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) and from the southern part of South Maalhosmadulhu by a narrower channel running from east to west.