[BurningFrog]

> The approval by Denmark's parliament paves the way for the 1 sq mile (2.6 sq km) project to begin later this year.

That's not a giant island.

[bombcar]

A square mile is pretty big, especially for an artificial island. It’s 640 acres (or something like 2,400 suburban homes).

Sure it’s not the size of Japan or something, but it’s not tiny.

[microtonal]

The Dutch artificial island 'Flevopolder' is ~970 square km. So, I wouldn't say giant when there is an artificial island that has a 373x larger surface area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevopolder

It is still a very nice project nonetheless!

[dan-robertson]

But that’s a polder made mostly by building dykes and draining the land rather than raising up the ground level across 970 square km. Flevopolder is about 4m below sea level.

I think the plan here is different and will not be done by building up dykes and draining the area inside.

[bombcar]

Yeah replacing water with air is a big project but replacing water and air with land is bigger.

[tgv]

Even IJburg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJburg) is 2.2km^2.

[7952]

These kind of numbers are not intuitive. Don't forget that you are working in volume of material. Making something only 1m high across 1 sq mile is around 2.5 million cubic metres.

[BurningFrog]

I only commented on the size of the island.

As island go, "giant" is far from a correct description.

Calling it a "giant project" would be fine.