(CNN) -- The December 26 tsunami has prompted the first visit by a U.N. Secretary General to the Maldives, a collection of 1200 tiny islands in the Indian Ocean. U.N. leader Kofi Annan has toured ...

Commemorating the victims of the 2004 tsunami. The Maldives was hit hard by the gigantic tidal wave, which killed 82 people and displaced 15,000. Near the harbour, a popular fish market offers the ...