Noting that Dubai was running out of beach front, the emirates' ruling family decided to build two huge islands in the shape of palm trees.
Real-estate developers have dredged coral and sand from the sea floor, piling it up in the Persian Gulf to create islands in the shape of palm trees and a map of the world.
The plan for a series of finger islands arranged in the shape of palm trees evolved as the best way to maximize the amount of beach front, he said.
In a year or so, it may not be necessary to move all the way to Dubai to own a piece of the emirate's artificial islands in the shape of palm trees.
Dubai's name has become synonymous with grand, headline-grabbing projects – the country's skyline now features the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa; passengers flying into Dubai airport, one of the largest in the world, can see manmade islands in the shape of palm trees from the air; and the city inaugurated a metro system in 2009.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Back in 2007, when the government here announced its plan for "the world's first zero-carbon city" on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, many Westerners dismissed it as a gimmick — a faddish follow-up to neighboring Dubai's half-mile-high tower in the desert and archipelago of man-made islands in the shape of palm trees.
Perhaps you haven't heard of the $3 billion construction of two islands in the shape of palm trees.
Remember that pair of man-made islands in the shape of palm trees, 3.5 billion cubic feet of sand?
A particular case has been described for the dissected shape of palm leaves (Arecaceae, monocotyledons).
It's also the closest man gets to God – that we forged this land ourselves, in the most absurd shape possible, an island in the shape of a palm, a palm it turns out one of the most impossible-to-traverse shapes in all of existence, the retconned monorail on top of the Palm Jumeirah a sort of million-dollar monument to man's folly.
