Some pictures I recently re-discovered from a surreal site trip to ‘The World’ artificial archipelago in Dubai. This was 2008 when the land was still selling for massive prices and Nakheel had recently announced their next proposed land reclamation scheme - ‘The Universe’.
These were taken from ‘Libya’ which was being re-branded as ‘Star Island’ - You can just about make out the Burj in the background. Even at that time there were erosion and silting problems and it seemed to be a massive task just to stop the islands floating away. Apparently the maintenance contract can no longer be afforded so presumably it’ll all just melt back into the ocean.
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