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Palm Islands

British  

plural noun

  1. a group of three man-made island systems under construction just off the shore in Dubai, each in the shape of a palm tree

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He currently lives in Dubai, on the Palm Islands.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2021

Dubai World is famous for building the mix-used real estate project known as the Palm Islands.

From Forbes ● Nov. 2, 2014

Its limestone, pulverized into aggregate, supplies building projects around the region, such as Dubai’s Palm Islands.

From BusinessWeek ● Jun. 15, 2012

Like the Palm Islands of Dubai, it’s an entirely inorganic show of oil-derived wealth.

From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 8, 2011

Our course was then directed across Halifax Bay towards the Palm Islands, passing inside a small rocky islet marked i, on the chart, and another of larger size, k.

From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 by Phillip Parker King

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