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.
