Kuredu, Maldives Islands Webcam

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The Maldives, is an island nation consisting of a group of atolls stretching south of India’s Lakshadweep islands, and south-west of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean.

The Maldives holds the record for being the lowest country in the world, and the surrounding reef is composed of coral debris and living coral. In ancient times the Maldives were renowned for cowry shells, coir rope, dried tuna fish, ambergris and coco de mer. Local and foreign trading ships used to load these products in Sri Lanka and transport them to other harbors in the Indian Ocean.

A tsunami in the Indian Ocean caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake caused serious damage to the socioeconomic infrastructure which left many people homeless, and irreversible damage to the environment. After the disaster, cartographers are planning to redraw the maps of the islands due to alterations caused by the tsunami.