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According to the census conducted by the Statistics Center of Dubai, the population of the emirate was 1,422,000 as of 2006 - up from 58,971 in 1968. Have a look at the coast of the United Arab Emirates on a series of Landsat satellite images above. Would be great to have a History slider in Google Earth or Maps ;)
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Wow... the 1972 NASA picture is truly mind-boggling.. how did you get them exactly the same size and scale? pretty amazing stuff..
you can see they made the creek deeper and wider.. wow.. i think we should ALL take some time out of our lives to look back every now and then. Without an origin, we do not have a destination.