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34 years on...! |
A sight unseen in 75-76! |
About to leave Gan |
Airfield perimeter fence next to Pakistani graveyard |
Airman's Mess |
Bottom end of Murder Mile |
Breakfast at Equator Village |
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Causeway linking Gan and Feydhoo |
Cement inscriptions at diving club |
Chiko Ali, ex-MCU Maldivian workforce boss |
Commonwealth graveyard |
Equator Village reception |
Equator Village reef at low tide |
Ex-MCU employee Moosa, before & after |
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Fathun, one of the receptionists |
Feydhoo Girls |
Fishing off MCU jetty |
Flightdeck of Dash 8 |
Flotsam & jetsam!! |
Fountain at old salt-water pool |
Gan end of causeway |
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Gan from the causeway |
Gan memorial |
Gan |
Granny & Grandaughter |
Head chef and the restaurant |
Inside the old airmen's mess |
Landing at Male airport |
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Leaving Gan |
Leaving the Defence Force camp |
Looking east down the runway |
Looking towards MCU jetty |
Looking towards where the Naafi shop stood |
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Maradhoo-Hithadhoo causeway |
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MCU bar building |
MCU bar |
MCU beach |
MCU from the jetty |
MCU jetty |
Memorial plaque |
Mick Cooper & Nick Ford |
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Mick Cooper at the end of Murder Mile |
Mick Cooper crossing the airfield |
My dawn chorus! |
Nick Ford and Moosa |
Old air force building |
Old Astra cinema |
Old Gan power-generating building |
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Old MCU bar |
Old MCU HQ, now Customs |
Old Naafi shop area and MCU jetty |
Old sailing-diving club building |
On the old perimeter road |
Our Defence Force chaperone |
Perimeter road, facing Feydhoo |
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Ruins of Pakistani camp cinema |
Sailing Club-Diving Club Building |
Sunset en-route to Gan |
Sunset over Feydhoo |
SWO's office and post office |
The 180 Club |
The Astra |
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The Blue Lagoon entrance |
The Blue Lagoon |
The old airmen's mess |
The pool area |
The rebuilt MCU block |
Various atolls |
Vivienne & Mick Cooper |
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What's left of Pakistani camp cinema screen |
Where the flag finally came down in '76 |
With local kids on Maradhoo-Hithadhoo causeway |
With MCU block inhabitants |
Wreath laid last year |