Every child has written their names on the beach at some point, but whereas most people's "sandwriting" is washed away, one super-rich Arab sheikh has ensured that his doodles will last a little longer.
Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, 63, has scrawled his name in sand on an island he owns with letters so big they can be seen from space.
The word "HAMAD" measures 1,000 meters high and is a staggering two miles long from the "H" to the "D" on the Al Futaisi island.
And rather than allow the writing to be washed away by the ocean, the letters actually form waterways that absorb the encroaching tide. The ruler's name is even visible on Google's map service.
Hamad dreamed up the idea and had his workmen toil for weeks to craft the enormous piece of sand graffiti. It is not known how much it cost to make.
The sheikh boasts a personal fortune second only to the Saudi king's.
Hamad, also known as the "Rainbow Sheikh" is a member of the Abu Dhabi Ruling Family.
He is understood to have some 200 cars including seven Mercedes 500 SELs painted in different colors of the rainbow which he stores in a giant pyramid.
The Arab sheikh has a taste for doing things on a large scale. He built the world's largest truck - eight times the size of the Dodge Power Wagon, with four bedrooms inside the cabin.
Hamad constructed a motor home in the shape of a giant globe which is exactly 1 millionth the size of the actual earth.
Alongside his lavish displays of wealth he has become a well-known philanthropist in medicine and supplied a complete kidney stone operating theatre to a public hospital in Morocco where he continues to fund its staff.


据英国《每日邮报》7月21日报道：每个孩子都曾在海滩上写下自己的名字，但大多数人的"沙滩签名"都会被冲刷掉，然而一个超级富有的阿拉伯酋长却能让他的涂鸦保存长久一些。


63岁的哈马德•本•哈姆丹•阿勒纳哈扬在其私人岛屿的沙滩中刻下"大名"，字母之大甚至从太空都能看到。

"HAMAD"这个词高1000米，字母"H"到"D"的距离在阿芙泰斯岛上绵延了两英里。

为了不让字迹被海水冲掉，字体本身就被设计成能吸纳海水的水道。这位统治者的名字甚至用谷歌地图都能看得到。


哈马德想出这个主意，并让他的工人们辛苦数周精心创造出如此巨大的"沙滩涂鸦"。尚不清楚此项工程耗资多少。
这位酋长夸口说其个人资产仅次于沙特国王。

哈马德也被称为"彩虹酋长"，是阿布达比酋长国的王族成员。

据悉，他拥有200多辆轿车，包括7辆分别涂抹彩虹色的奔驰500SELs，这些车均放置在一座巨型金字塔内。

这位酋长一贯求"大"，他曾经制造了世界上最大的卡车，尺寸是道奇牵引卡车的8倍，车内还有4间卧室。

哈马德还建造了一个地球形状的汽车房屋，其体积正好是实际地球的百万分之一。

除了大肆炫富，他还是一位著名的医疗慈善家，为摩洛哥一家公立医院捐赠了一间肾结石手术室，并继续为其员工资助工资。

• whereas [weər´æz] conj.鉴于；因此；而 (初中英语单词)
• writing [´raitiŋ] n.书写；写作；书法 (初中英语单词)
• actually [´æktʃuəli] ad.事实上；实际上 (初中英语单词)
• absorb [əb´sɔ:b] vt.吸收；吸引 (初中英语单词)
• visible [´vizəbəl] a.可见的；明显的 (初中英语单词)
• enormous [i´nɔ:məs] a.巨大地，很，极 (初中英语单词)
• actual [´æktʃuəl] a.现实的；实际的 (初中英语单词)
• wealth [welθ] n.财富，财产 (初中英语单词)
• well-known [,wel´nəun] a.著名的，众所周知的 (初中英语单词)
• rainbow [´reinbəu] n.彩虹 (高中英语单词)
• workmen [´wə:kmen] n.workman的复数 (英语四级单词)
• lavish [´læviʃ] a.慷慨的；浪费的 (英语四级单词)
• kidney [´kidni] n.肾；性格；脾气 (英语六级单词)