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  • ($3.99), the ginger paste ($2.99), the dehydrated tuna flakes known as Maldive chips ($4.99) and jaggery ($4.99), a sweet made from palm sugar.

    NYT > Travel 2010

  • In 2001, 22-year old surfing superstar Jay Moriarity drowned while free diving in the Maldive Islands.

    Curtis Hanson to Direct Film About Surfer Jay Moriarity; Sean Penn May Appear | /Film 2010

  • Since declaring that he was passionate about the Maldive Islands would have been absurd, it was perhaps unnecessary to make the point in the first place.

    Ed Miliband gives nothing away in first interrogation Simon Hoggart 2010

  • He sent the crew and Turkish celebrities to the Maldive islands.

    Turkish 'Peasant' Banker Faces Sale Marc Champion 2011

  • Long before the Maldive Islands are submerged by ‘rising sea levels’ every Spaniard and Italian will be six feet under, wiped out by declining birthrates.

    Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

  • Further concerns to the Maldive terror link was highlighted when A planned attack on an Indian Space Research Organisation facility in southern India was called off after a Maldives national code-named 'Ehsham' backed out of the plot [18].

    Maldives: A fresh look at the terror threat 2009

  • One vessel reached Madagascar and was wrecked on the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • “Sadaf,” the Kauri, or cowrie, brought from the Maldive and Lakdive Archipelago.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • One vessel reached Madagascar and was wrecked on the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • A dreadful tempest soon after this came on, which drove the Hebrew family towards the coast of India; and the vessel was wrecked on one of the Maldive islands now called Padrabranca, but which was at that time uninhabited.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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