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Mostly to provide more real estate. For example, the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, Egypt was simply built as a real estate venture; home to large residential areas, tourist attractions, restaurants and retail stores.
Other islands are artificially built to house oil drilling rigs like the Northstar Island in the Beaufort sea. Due to the high noise pollution surrounding airports, islands are constructed to support complete air bases away from populated, urban areas.
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What are artificial islands?
Unlike islands created by nature, artificial islands are man-made.
What is artificial islands?
Islands made by man. China right now is making artificial islands for military bases.
What is an artificial island?
An Artificial Island is an island built entirely by humans. There are many examples of artificial islands throughout history.
How can the hardness of a rock help people?
it can help make an artificial bone.
What civilization in ancient Mexico had a capital with the black and red colors canals and hanging gardens that Plato described for Atlantis?
The Aztec or Mexica people in central Mexico would qualify as such. They however, had "floating gardens" in artificial islands known as chinampas.
What city is creating their own islands in the Persian gulf?
Dubai, of the United Arab Emirates, is creating artificial islands.
How many islands make up the state of Bahrain?
Bahrain, middle east. Bahrain from 1999 - 2007 had 20 islands and 5 of them were 1 of the famous islands in the world. Specially durrat al Bahrain and amwaj island. But after these 2 islands were full of construction the government thought to make 15-20 more islands. Between 2007-2008 they made 7 more islands. So now Bahrain has 37 islands present. From Faiq malhi
How can volcanoes be good for people?
they make new islands when they erupt
How many people make up cayman islands?
195,2343
The Aztec grew crops off floating artificial islands called?
Chinampas
What has the author K N Matsumura written?
K. N. Matsumura has written: 'After fifteen years : artificial liver & artificial pancreas' -- subject(s): Artificial liver, Artificial organs, Diseases, Islands of Langerhans, Liver, Pancreas
Do they make artificial tongues for people that have had to have their tongue removed?
I know of no artificial tongues. But artificial voice generation by amplifying and modulation the vibrations in the vocal chords is common. In this case the patient must have learned to speak earlier.
