Matt’s Wikimapia Blog

Palm Jumeirah

Ever since seeing The Palm Islands being constructed in Dubai on the Discovery Channel I am been interested in them. The Palm Islands Wikipedia Article has a lot of good information about the construction of the islands (there will eventually be three palms in total and they are also starting on making the world into islands as well) so I won’t go into that aspect. One thing that I do want to mention is that because these structures are so large, they are actually changing the coastline! (Images are clickable for larger versions)

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A year ago I posted about ancient Roman ruins being discovered with Google Earth. I decided to check it out at Wikimapia and found that no one has marked the ruins yet! Not even in italian! Since this is the one year anniversary (well it just passed) of the discovery, I thought I would point this out as a cool place to check out. Click the above image for a larger version or visit it at Wikimapia.