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The '''Palm Islands''' are antwo [[Artificial island|artificial]] [[archipelago]] (islands) in [[Dubai]], [[United Arab Emirates]] (UAE), off the coast in the [[Persianshape Gulf]].of palm Major commercial and residential infrastructure will be constructed by [[Nakheel Properties]], a property developer in the UAEtrees. The [[Belgian]] and [[Netherlands|Dutch]] dredging and marine contractors [[Jan De Nul]] and [[Van Oord]], some of the world's leading specialists in [[land reclamation]], were hired to complete construction. The islands are the [[Palm Jumeirah]], and the [[Palm Jebel Ali]] and the [[Palm Deira]].

Each settlement will be in the shape of a [[palm tree]], topped with a crescent. The settlements will have a large number of residential, leisure and entertainment centres. The Palm Islandsand will add 520 kilometres of non-public beaches to the city of Dubai.

The first two islands will comprise approximately {{convert|100,000|m3}} of rock and sand. The Palm Deira will be composed of approximately one billion cubic meters of rock and sand. All materials will be quarried in The UAE. AmongOn the threetwo islands, there will be over 100 luxury hotels, exclusive residential beach-side villas and apartments, marinas, [[Amusement park|water theme parks]], restaurants, shopping malls, sports facilities and health spas.

The creation of the Palm Jumeirah began in June 2001. Shortly after, the Palm Jebel Ali was announced and reclamation work began. TheA Palmthird Deiraisland iswas planned toand haveconstruction astarted, surfacebut areathis of {{convert|46.35|km2}} andproject was announcedlater forremodelled developmentand inrenamed October 2004. Before the impact of the globalto [[creditDeira crunchIsland]] hit Dubai, construction was originally planned to take 10–15 years.

The Palm Islands are artificial islands constructed from sand dredged from the bottom of the [[Persian Gulf]] by the Belgian company, [[Jan De Nul]] and the Dutch company, [[Van Oord]]. The sand is sprayed from the dredging ships, which are guided by a [[Global Positioning System]], on to the required area in a process known as [[rainbowing]]. The process is known as [[rainbowing]] because of the rainbow-like arcs produced in the air when the sand is sprayed. The outer edge of each palm's encircling crescent is a large rock [[Breakwater (structure)|breakwater]]. The breakwater of the [[Palm Jumeirah]] has over seven million tons of rock. Each rock was placed individually by a crane, signed off by a diver and given a Global Positioning System coordinate.{{Citation needed|date=November 2008}} The Jan De Nul Group started working on the Palm Jebel Ali in 2002 and had finished by the end of 2006. The reclamation project for the Palm Jebel Ali includes the creation of a four-kilometer-long peninsula, protected by a 200-meter-wide, seventeen-kilometer long circular breakwater. There are 210,000,000 cubic meters of rock, sand and limestone that were reclaimed (partly originating from the Jebel Ali entrance channel dredging work). There are approximately 10,000,000 cubic meters of rocks in the Slope Protection Works.

<small>{{Coord|25|06|28|N|55|08|15|E|}}</small> ) consists of a tree trunk, a crown with 16 fronds, and a surrounding crescent island that forms an 11 kilometer-long breakwater. The island itself is five kilometers by five kilometers. It will addadds 78 kilometers to the Dubai coastline. Over the next three to four years, the first phase of development on the Palm Jumeirah will create 4,000 residences included in a combination of villas and apartments.

According to project developer, Nakheel Properties, residentsResidents began moving into their Palm Jumeirah properties at the end of 2006, five years after land reclamation began. This signaled the end of phase one of construction, which included approximately 1,400 villas on 11 of the fronds of the island and roughly 2,500 shoreline apartments in 20 buildings on the east side of the trunk.

The Palm Jebel Ali Umar began construction in October 2002 and was expected to be completed in mid-2008.<ref name="thepalmae">{{cite web|url=http://realestate.theemiratesnetwork.com/developments/dubai/palm_jebel_ali.php|publisher=[http://realestate.theemiratesnetwork.com/ The Emirates Network: Ten Real Estate]|title=The Palm Jebel Ali (Palm Islands, Dubai) - Property Development|year=2007|accessdate=2007-02-11}}</ref><ref name="Progress Update">{{cite web|url= http://www.ameinfo.com/133896.html |publisher= ''[[AMEInfo]]'' |title= Dubai's Palm and World Islands - progress update |date= 4 October 2007 |accessdate=2007-10-28}}</ref> Once it has been completed, it will encircle the [[Dubai Waterfront]]. The project, which is 50% larger than the Palm Jumeirah project, will include six marinas, a water theme park, a sea village, homes built on stilts, and [[boardwalk]]s that encircle the fronds of the palm and spell out an [[Arabic poetry|Arabic poem]] by Sheikh [[Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum]]:<ref name="thepalmae"/>.