How was the world islands & the palm islands in dubai made?

Published by: wktd 2009-01-08

The World islands revealed - Construction & Industry - ArabianBusiness.com::
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: First aerial photograph of Nakheels completed manmade archipelago in Dubai. 70% of The World islands sold Saudi economic city ahead of
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i think it was something like, they dug up sand and brought it up or something, but im not really sure. and also, what are the bad/cons of making these islands? wouldn't it kill many living species in the ocean to make these islands?

there was a show about it on discovery like How its made or huge machines etc..

Turks and Caicos Islands - World Factbook::
Turks and Caicos Islands, Introduction, Top of Page. Background: The territory. was agreed upon for 1982, the policy was reversed and the islands remain
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anyways.. it took a few years and many truck hours to go inland to the rock quarries and haul millions of truckloads of rock (large truck sized boulders) out to a bay, dump into a huge barge the size of an oil tanker with a special drop out bottom, that went by GPS out to the middle of the ocean and dropped the boulders laying the foundation out at sea to eventually build up to a point where they could start pumping out water and building up more sand and rock till they got the land just like the wanted it. they also had to install something that looked like industrial sized plastic liners along the sandy sea wall to prevent erosion also.. It was a massive undertaking.. but interesting..

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wow, that's a loaded question. just research on the net. there was a special on the history channel that explained all of that in detail. look for that. good luck.

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