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Sat 12 Dec 2009Paradise in a perilous state
Ahead of next week’s UN climate change summit in Copenhagen, FRANK McDONALD, Environment Editor, visits some of the 1,200 low-lying islands across the Equator that make up the Maldives – a honeymooners’ haven and an environmental disaster in waiting
A SEAPLANE REALLY is the only way to see the Maldives. Our 17-seat Trans Maldivian Twin Otter, en route from Malé to the exclusive Soneva Fushi resort in Baa Atoll, gave us incredible views of the islands, strewn like emeralds in the vastness of the Indian Ocean.
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