Kurinbi (Haa Dhaalu Atoll)
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Kurinbi is one of the inhabited islands of Haa Dhaalu Atoll
administrative division and geographically part of Thiladhummathi Atoll in the north of the Maldives
. The island was severely damaged by the great cyclone
of 1821 that hit the northern atolls of the Maldives.
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...
. The island was severely damaged by the great cyclone
Cyclone
In meteorology, a cyclone is an area of closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth. This is usually characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth. Most large-scale...
of 1821 that hit the northern atolls of the Maldives.