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Palm Island - Records | Dubai -
[27/08/2006]
Place : Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Description : Palm Island is one of the 3 larger artificial islands in the world. This island was built to develop the tourism of this area.
It is envisaged there: 60 hotels of luxury, 4000 villas, 5000 apartments, casinos, etc. A real city in the sea.
On this satellite photo, the island is in construction and should be finished in 2007 according to the estimates of this original project realizers.
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The longest suspension bridge : 4630 feet (1410 m) - Records | England -
[09/06/2006]
Description : The bridge of the Humber estuary, Humberside, GB, with the longest crossing of the world, it measures 4630 feet (1410 m). The pylons which support the bridge measure 530 feet (162 m) and deviate from 0.12 feet (36 mm) of the parallel to compensate for the curve of the Earth. The overall length of the bridge is 1.36 mile (2.2 km).
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33.5 million LEGO bricks - Records | Denmark -
[09/06/2006]
Description : Opened in 1968, the Legoland park, near Billund, Denmark, reproduced various sites and monuments using 33.5 million Lego. The park extends on 10 ha area and accomodates 1 million visitors per year.
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France in miniature : Elancourt - Records | France -
[07/06/2006]
Record : La France sur 20 ha.
Description : Miniature France of Elancourt, Yvelines, which extends on 20 ha area, represents France by an immense relief map, broadside of water levels appearing the seas and oceans of the littoral. 2000 models on scale 1/30 reproduce the historical and cultural inheritance of France.
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The biggest hotel of the world - Records | USA -
[06/06/2006]
Record : 4032 rooms.
Description : The casino-hotel- Excalibur, Las Vegas, Nevada, extends on a 473.000 m² area. Opened in 1990, it employs 4000 people and includes 7 restaurants, 4032 rooms and 11 snack bars. It cost 290 million $.
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The large oldest wheel - Records | Austria -
[06/06/2006]
Année de construction : 1897.
Description : Riesenrad is the oldest, and perhaps the most famous of the Ferris Wheels still that work. It was built into 1896/1897 by an English, Walter Bassett. Measure 215 feet (65 m) height.
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Mountain under the sea - Records | Oceania -
[01/06/2006]
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28500 feet (8690 m) detph under the sea.
Description : The under sea mountain close to the pit of Tonga, between the islands Samoa and New Zealand, was discovered in 1953. It rises to 28500 feet (8690 m) above sea-bed and top culminates to 1200 feet (365 m) above the surface.
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