These days
techonology growing fast. People work hard to make new invention make something
impossible became possible. One of their amazing masterpieces is build an
artificial islands in Dubai. Since the 1980s, Dubai has exploded to the
forefront of global business and tourism. The ruler of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed
bin Rashid al Maktoum, pursues development as a way to eliminate the emirate's
reliance on dwindling oil supplies.
Dubai is
the most populous city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the
second largest emirate by territorial size after the capital, Abu Dhabi.
Located on the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf and is one of the seven
emirates that make up the country and heads up the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman
metropolitan area. Part of the planned Palm Islands, a cluster of
"manufactured" islands in the United Arab Emirates, Palm Jumeirah is
an artificial archipelago designed in the shape of a palm tree. It consists of
a trunk, a crown with 16 fronds, and a surrounding crescent island that forms
an 6.8 mile-long breakwater. It's one of Dubai's mega-projects.
Actually I
have just watched megastructure about how to The Palm Islands are artificial
peninsulas constructed of sand dredged from the bottom of the Persian Gulf.
This islands was build by the Belgian company Jan De Nul and the Dutch company
Van Oord. The sand is sprayed by the dredging ships, which are guided by DGPS,
onto the required area in a process known as rain-bowing because of the arcs in
the air when the sand is sprayed. The outer edge of each Palm's encircling
crescent is a large rock breakwater. The breakwater of the Palm Jumeirah has
over seven million tons of rock. Each rock was placed individually by a crane,
signed off by a diver and given a GPS coordinate. The Palm was created using 7
million tons of rock, according to its developer Nakheel. The island also
includes a curved breakwater using natural rock, intended to encourage the
creation of a natural reef and provide habitats for sea life.The Jan De Nul
Group started working on the Palm Jebel Ali in 2002 and had finished by the end
of 2006. The reclamation project for the Palm Jebel Ali includes the creation
of a four-kilometre-long peninsula, protected by a 200-metre-wide, seventeen -
kilometre long circular breakwater. 210,000,000 m3 of rock, sand and limestone
were reclaimed (partly originating from the Jebel Ali Entrance Channel dredging
works). There are approximately 10,000,000 cubic metres of rocks in the slope
protection works.
Once complete, this
islands are known for their own beauty. The island will have hotel rooms and
homes for 65,000 people, according to Guardian and is now the home of the
luxury resort Palm Atlantis Hotel.
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