The unspoiled, largely unvisited Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean is one destination on a 17-night itinerary aboard the line's latest vessel, the 120-passenger Silver Discoverer.

Photographer Thomas Peschak worked on Aldabra atoll in 2008, so he had a pretty good idea what he was in for when he started prepping for his recent National Geographic assignment. “The climate ...

“Aldabra is a low-lying Atoll and it will disappear if the present trends of global warming are not controlled. Also, it will add to the long list of human-caused extinctions, rather than a ...

Aldabra—an Indian Ocean atoll that’s part of the Seychelles—was colonized in the early 1800s by the French, and later by the British. The Seychelles are now an independent nation.

Today, Aldabra Atoll, an island in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar and Tanzania, is a predator-free paradise for more than 100,000 giant tortoises. Gone are the seafarers who over-hunted them to ...

The white-throated rail colonized the Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean and evolved to become flightless, before being completely wiped out when the island disappeared below the sea around […] ...

The Aldabra atoll is 400 km from the nearest mainland. There is little soil, practically no fresh water, no guano, no phosphate, no deep-water anchorage.

Posted: May 10, 2019 / 09:11 AM PDT Updated: May 10, 2019 / 09:11 AM PDT The white-throated rail colonized the Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean — twice. (Credit: University of Portsmouth) CNN Wire ...

Aldabra's raised atoll shoreline: From 1960 to 2011, 24% of the shoreline changed at a rate of 25 cm/ yr, the lagoon shoreline changed at 32 cm/yr and the ocean shoreline changed at 15 cm/yr.

Aldabra is so large in fact that the entire main island of Mahe would comfortably fit inside the atoll, not that anyone would want to try that, of course.