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Flash fact: Palm Jabel Ali

(May 2008) posted on Tue Jul 08, 2008 EDT


More than 300 million cubic yards of sand and 10 million tons of rock have been used in the construction of The Palm Jebel Ali, below. The Palm adds more than 52 miles of coastline to Dubai. It would take roughly 18.75 million dump trucks to haul in all that sand. That convoy would wrap around the earth a little more than five and a half times.

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