Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just imagine if a 60-strong tropical island chain with the world's largest atoll, a third of the size of the area of all Maldives ...

Just imagine if a 60-strong tropical island chain with the world's largest atoll, a third of the size of the area of all Maldives but far more open to Indian Ocean swells, suddenly appeared on the map ...