A new world

摘要

The first glamorous residents have al-ready made a home for themselves at "The World", an archipelago of 300 artificial islands (pictured above) created off the coast of Dubai by Nakheel, one of the emirate's big three developers. Pilot fish and parrot fish have colonised the man-made reef surrounding the islands. The reef, built from 34m tonnes of rock, forms a protective ring around the islands-a breakwater that stops the Gulf's currents from slowly washing The World away.