Ferrari Mailing List: Re: FW: Strange But True...A gift for Michael Schumacher

[Robert Garven (rgarven]

can anyone find this on google earth??

On 10/25/06, Brian Keegan <bkeegan [at] trutlands.com> wrote:
> Has anyone heard about this?
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> Michael Schumacher received an unique and unprecedented parting gift
> after his last grand prix in Brazil -- an island.
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> Dubai's crown prince - Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum -
> reportedly decided to give the retiring German a piece of the man-made
> island paradise 'The World', located off the coast of the United Arab
> Emirates.
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> 'The World' is 300 islands clustered together in a nine kilometre zone
> to resemble Earth from an aerial photo.
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> Schumacher's island, apparently part of 'Antarctica' on the artificial
> globe, is worth about (US) $7 million.
>
> Schumacher's manager Willi Weber confirmed: "In a couple of years it
> will be finished. Then Michael and Corinna will have their own holiday
> island!
>
> "Perhaps he will build a kart track on it."
>
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Robert Garven, Ventura, California
1975 308 gt4 Red/ Black