Addu or Seenu Atoll is the southernmost atoll of the Republic of Maldives. Only six of the islands in the Atoll are inhabited and they are Meedhoo, Hithadhoo, Maradhoo, Feydhoo, Gan, and Hulhudhoo with the total population just over 18,000. Along with Huvadhu Atoll and Fua Mulaku, Addu is separated from the other Maldivian atolls by the one and half degree channel.
The British had a military air/sea force base - RAF Gan - on the island of Gan during the World War I and between 1957 and 1976. The dialect of the Dhivehi language spoken in this atoll is very different from the rest of the country.
A fish processing plant in Adduatoll is about to set up soon, the Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Abdu Rasheed Hussain said.
On a tour to the southernmost four atolls of the country, he said "Once the plant is set up in Adduatoll, the region will gain lot of benefits".
The mobile phone service to AdduAtoll was officially launched on Sunday, 17 August 2003 by the Minister of Communication, Science and Technology, Midhath Hilmy.
AdduAtoll, also known as Seenu, is the southernmost island group in the Maldives.
To facilitate the defense, the important islands on the western edge of the atoll would be linked by a light railway across causeways built up between the the islands.
AdduAtoll has since become a major tourist destination, but British personnel assigned there in 1942 despised the post.
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