_____ Islands (Indian Ocean locale)

Usage examples of maldive.

Indian Ocean there are, besides the colonies already mentioned, Rodriguez, the Chagos Islands, St Brandon Islands, Amirante Islands, Aldabra, Kuria Muria Islands, Maldive Islands and some other small groups.

I had plans to go chasing rumours of ancient pyramids in the Maldive Islands and along the Somali coast of East Africa to see if I could pick up any clues of a lost paradise of antiquity.

In death, she traveled near Maldive somewhere, forever headed out into the Universe toward peace-if indeed such existed anywhere.

From the rear of the bridge, Maldive spoke into a dozen interCOMM systems.

Datan let the lifelike image of Tempus, his arm in a sling and his needs being tended by the widow Maldives, fade away.

Like the jobbers who flocked to the Moon and the Maldives when Lunar City and the Skyhook had to be built .

By the time the ambassador landed in the Maldives, room had been found.

Looking back through my diary, as I begin this account of the strange means by which the prosperity of the company which I now serve was founded, I find it difficult to realise that there was a time when I had never been to the Maldives, had scarcely ever heard of Addu Atoll.

The charts were like no charts I had ever seen before, for the Maldives are not islands in the normal sense, but groups of coral growth forming lace-like fringes around shallow seas dotted with islets.

That was how I came to visit the Maldives and write that paper for the Royal Geographical Society.

Alternatively, we would have to give the Maldives a wide berth and head north for the coast of India.

Edrisi, writing in 1154 has a passage relating how at some time in the past, when India was in confusion, the Chinese withdrew their trading posts to the islands of Zanedj--possibly the Maldives or Laccadives, or perhaps the big islands of southeast Asia.

The representative from the Maldives was young and beautiful and oh so innocent-looking.

Before the force had left the Maldives, Admiral Kupinsky had called a meeting of the entire squadron.

Huge forces of American and Soviet military ships have maneuvered back and forth between the Seychelle Islands to the east and the Maldives to the north, with the controversial Islas Piedras as a pivot point.