Satellite Image Shows Construction of World's First Floating City
Drudge Report - 2024-05-03T16:36:10.000Z

A floating city, considered the world's first, is starting to take shape in the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean.Satellite imagery provided exclusively to Newsweek by Maxar Technologies shows the state of construction of the Maldives Floating City, a development of modular floating platforms that is scheduled to be completed in 2027.The "island city," the brainchild of the Maldivian government in partnership with the Dutch architectural firm Waterstudio, is sprouting in a lagoon about 10...

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