Al Marjan Island

Located 27 km southwest of Ras Al Khaimah town centre, the Al Marjan Island is the first man-made island project to be developed in the Emirate. The cluster of five coral-shaped islands extend over 2.7 million m2 and is worth over over USD1.8 billion. Land reclamation is planned to finish by December 2007. Development completion is planned for June 2009.

The Al Marjan Island is designed to become a haven of luxurious living and an unparalleled leisure destination. This incredible development will comprise of waterfront homes, floating villas, hotels, resorts, sporting facilities and commercial areas.

Rakeen does not favour 'hostile dredging' to create man-made islands. Rather, we have used surface fill with coarse earth material for the Al Marjan Island. Over two million pieces of natural rock were cautiously and carefully laid one at a time for building essential breakwaters, instead of utilizing concrete ripraps that are visually unacceptable and naturally unwelcoming to marine life.

This has generated home to marine life over more than 400,000m2 of rock. The rocks will also, in the long term, attract coral life and help a reef formation, giving birth to a new 'natural' wonder in RAK and a breathtaking underwater paradise unique to the Arabian Gulf.