Makunudhoo is also famous as the island where Vazir Ibrahim Famuladeyri Takurufaanu who plotted to assassinate Sultan Muhammed Ghiya'as ud-din was exiled to in 1767.

However along with other plotters of the assassination he escaped to Chandannagar where they got protection from the French governor Monsieur Le Termellier.

Sultan Giyasudeen sent a number of gifts and a letter to the governor of Sri Lanka and asked him to arrest the men and return them to Maldives.

It has only one inhabited island and a small islet and it lies 10 miles west of the NW part of the Miladhummadulhu group.

In the Admiralty Chart this atoll is named after Sir Charles Malcolm, commander of the Bombay Marine (renamed the Indian Navy in 1832).