Desroches Island hotels collection

Desroches breaks the surface alone on the rim of a drowned atoll. English charts called it Wood Island, for its pisonias, trees whose seeds are so sticky that they pin to the ground any seabird that brushes against them; the coconut plantation took their place, and copra long kept the island alive. On the ocean side, the reef drops away at once towards deep water, and its wall, which divers call the Drop, is pierced with caverns and tunnels.