According to The Sun, the oversized name plate was commissioned by Shiekh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, who had his minions scratch ‘HAMAD’ in the sand. He also happens to be the second richest man in the region, and does not care if his name is properly aligned with the global directional convention of North-South-East-West. If you visit Google Maps (click below), you can see the handy work for yourself.
[Google Maps via The Sun]
alex
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 9:51 AMHas anybody told him that he wrote it upside down?
Shepard
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 10:09 AMgood luck fixing that HAMAD
Smileysmoke
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 10:45 AMshould have underlined it
wicked island though.. so much .. sand :|
Deb
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 11:01 AMwtf? looks like a it’s a massive trench which he’s trying to get water into but seriously.. why upside down?
Terry
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 1:11 PMbecause someone at The Giz doesn’t seem to understand “rotate”.
bennish
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 3:03 PMAnd if they rotated it, you’d complain that the Google Earth text is upside down.
Guess they can’t win with you, hey
Aaron
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 7:25 PMactually in space up and down arent defined, so really he put it the right way, upside down and side ways.
Todd Drexel
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 11:38 AMIt needs to be bigger!
Brian
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 12:38 PMMaybe he was trying to write, “damnit!” and his writing has an accent too.
Devin
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 1:37 PMIt reads ‘Ha! Mad’ so appropriate…
D
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 1:42 PMits upside down because when the billionaire was writing it at his desk, the guy building the letters saw it upside down not realising he was spelling his name :)
bennish
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 3:04 PMI can’t believe he spend so much money on a ham advertisement.
Ham. Ad…
*crickets*
HunterSBonobo
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 4:15 PMPerhaps he was drunk when he ordered his minions to do some digging and kept shouting “I’m hammered!”
*baseballs*
Tai
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 4:02 PMSigh, another colossal waste of money by a wanker arab shiek..
I can’t wait for the work to run out of oil and for them to run out of money…
Timmi
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 1:32 AMThey can’t EVER run out of money…the WEST already owes them trillions of $$ that they’d be the last to go go banckrupt…even if the oil runs out..soo there’ll be more waste of money to come lol
Tai
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 4:02 PM*world
Josh
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 5:43 PMPerahps the real irony is that noone will remember this guy, despite his effort to be immortalised in the Arab desert.
Hamad
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 6:54 PMlol … thats my name … now i can see it from space … that other Hamad guy is a pro