Kunburudhoo 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 Thiladhummathi Atoll in the north of 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...

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The island is suffering severe land loss to the sea due to coastal erosion

Coastal erosion

Coastal erosion is the wearing away of land and the removal of beach or dune sediments by wave action, tidal currents, wave currents, or drainage...

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Monsoon

Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea...

the sand is being eroded at a greater rate than it is accreted. Plans are underway to construct a quayside and artificial reef to protect the island.

At present the people of Kunburudhoo are planned to be transferred to H Dh Nolhivaranfaru with the people of Maavaidhoo and Faridhoo of the same atoll (September 2010)