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© Stéphane Compoint
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Virtual photo of the “Palm Jumeirah” site. With its 3840 km2, Dubai has only a short coast. For this reason, in 2001 this little emirate began the tremendous tourism project of increasing its coastline by building the world’s biggest artificial islands. Unique in its category, “Palm Jumeirah” is a tourist complex on the ocean made up of a trunk and of 17 palm trees surrounded by a 11 km long dyke. 60 kilometers of beach were created by relocating over 100 million m3 of sand and rocks to this 5km diameter complex. Logically finished at the end of 2006, “Palm Jumeirah” will house several tens of hotels, thousands of private houses and apartments as well as marinas, restaurants, water parks, shopping malls, sports fields, mineral springs, cinemas, etc. A 300 meter bridge will join the trunk to the continent. A monorail will lead to the “Atlantis Resort”, at the heart of the complex made up of a hotel with over 1000 rooms and an aquatic park.
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