Hulhulé
island in Kaafu Atoll, Maldives
Hulhulé (Dhivehi: ހުޅުލެ), located at 4°11′N 73°32′E, is an island in the North Malé Atoll of the Maldives where the city's airport, Velana International Airport, is located. The island has no permanent population.
It is one of the islands closest to the capital island Malé. Hulhulé is considered a ward of Malé.
The 2.1-kilometre (1.3 mi) Sinamalé Bridge links the island with Malé. The bridge, which has two car lanes and separate lanes for motorcycles and pedestrians, opened on 30 August 2018.
Velana International Airport
The Velana International Airport is located on this island along with some official premises, e.g. Maldives Meteorological Service. The airport is served internationally by various holiday charter flights (mostly from Europe) and several scheduled carriers including Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong Airlines, Emirates, Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways, British Airways, Turkish Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines and SriLankan Airlines. In addition to serving as an international and domestic airport, Hulhulé is also home to the seaplane terminal operated by Trans Maldivian Airways.
“Hulhulé” enters the record as island in Kaafu Atoll, Maldives. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hulhulé, island and Kaafu can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Hulhulé” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hulhulé, island and Kaafu provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1412352. Authority coordinates are 4.188, 73.529. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2018.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hulhulé” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.