Floating city planned for French Polynesia
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Jan 10, 2017
Floating city planned for French Polynesia
The Seasteading Institute plans to build a floating city in French Polynesia.
The Seasteading Institute has signed a memorandum of understanding with the French Polynesian government to build a floating city in the region.
The Seasteading Institute has been searching for an appropriate location for five years, and has selected the French Polynesia area for its sheltered waters.
"We were looking for sheltered waters — we don't want to be out in the open ocean — it's technologically possible but economically outrageous to afford," said the institute's executive director, Randolph Hencken.
"If we can be behind a reef break, then we can design floating platforms that are sufficient for those waters at an affordable cost," he said.
Construction is planned to commence in 2019.
The floating city could be a tourist attraction for French Polynesia, as well as offering a solution to rising sea levels.
"They (French Polynesia) are a tourist-based economy," said Hencken.
"So much of the world — places like Kiribati and many of the islands of French Polynesia — are threatened by rising sea levels," said Hencken.
The Seasteading Institute has been researching the potential for "permanent, innovative communities floating at sea" for five years. The floating cities are intended to be able to produce their own food and establish their own governments.
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