The United Arab Emirates are pursuing an extremely large, ambitious, expensive project to build an ultra-luxury resort called The Palms. What is interesting about this particular project is that it is being built entirely on the world largest man-made islands. In fact, the islands will be visible from the moon with the naked eye, and will create 120 km of shoreline. Construction began in 2001 and is expected to end in 2007. { I've been to their webpage but I couldn't find it, need a reference and info on cost - P }