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Palm Islands

plural noun

  1. a group of three man-made island systems under construction just off the shore in Dubai, each in the shape of a palm tree
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Larger than the palm islands in Dubai, the project is a dizzying blend of European, Asian and futuristic buildings designed by international architects.

He currently lives in Dubai, on the Palm Islands.

From BBC

The name of the hotel is W Dubai - The Palm, not the Palm Islands of Dubai.

Meanwhile, Dubai’s Palm Islands were built to increase the amount of premium waterfront land available, elevating the city’s tourism economy to attract luxury hotels and resorts, and the very wealthy.

This would make such a project similar to the amount of material excavated to form Dubai’s Palm Islands, which took 0.3 cubic km of sand and rock, or the Suez canal, which required the excavation of roughly one cubic km.

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