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Welcome to Tulip Island
The threat of rising sea-levels is getting a few people excited as they plan and plot new artificial islands. Then again it could just be canny developers with an eye on making megabucks. 
The go-ahead Arab supercity of Dubai is leading the pack with developments like the Palms and the World, but now the idea is taking hold in perennially low-lying countries like the Netherlands.
A new island is being planned off the Dutch coast which will be in the shape of a tulip. I guess they could have plumped for a giant windmill or a huge bottle of Heineken, but a tulip is still undeniably Dutch.
What's next? A giant kangaroo off the coast of Aussie's Great Barrier Reef, or a yellow taxi with room for tens of thousands of passengers flagged down in the Hudson River?
Thanks to Marshall Astor on Flickr for the pic.
Filed under: Business, Europe, United Arab, Netherlands, Ecotourism
