The Palm Islands are three artificial archipelago islands in the shape of palm trees being constructed off the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The islands are being built by the contractor Jan De Nul through the process of dredging and spraying sand and rock onto the required areas. When complete, the Palm Islands will add 520 kilometers of beaches and feature over 100 luxury hotels, residential villas, and entertainment attractions at a total cost of $12.3 billion.

1. PALM ISLAND IN DUBAI

2. • The Palm Islands are artificial archipelago in
Dubai , UAE
• constructed by Nakheel Properties, who hired
Belgian and Dutch dredging and marine
contractor Jan De Nul and Van Oord, some of
the world's specialists in land reclamation.

3. • Each settlement will be in the shape of a palm
tree, and will have a large number of
residential, leisure and entertainment centers.
• The Palm Islands are located off the coast of
The United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf
and will add 520 kilometres of beaches to the
city of Dubai.

4. • The first two islands will comprise
approximately 100 million cubic meters of
rock and sand. Palm Deira will be composed of
approximately 1 billion cubic meters of rock
and sand.
• The creation of the Palm Jumeirah began in
June 2001.

6. Construction
• . The sand is sprayed by the dredging ships, which
are guided by DGPS, onto the required area in a
process known as rainbowing
• The outer edge of each Palm's encircling crescent
is a large rock breakwater.
• The breakwater of the Palm Jumeirah has over
seven million tons of rock.
• The Jan De Nul Group started working on the
Palm Jebel Ali in 2002 and had finished by the
end of 2006

7. • Among the three islands there will be over
100 luxury hotels, exclusive residential beach
side villas and apartments, marinas, water
theme parks, restaurants, shopping
malls, sports facilities and health spas.
• Total cost reached 12.3 billion US $ and
approximately 40,000 workers.