Dubai spent billions constructing hundreds of man-made islands shaped like the world map. From the air, the project looked like a triumph of ambition and engineering. On the ground, most of the ...

apart, most notably as a whole new artificial island is seen to rise from the seabed. An initial radar image of Dubai was taken by ERS-2’s SAR instrument in May 1999. on "The World" — a series of 200 ...

Dubai is famous for its attention-grabbing architecture, whether it’s the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, or the actual “World” — an archipelago of 300 man-made islands in the shape of, as ...