Sandwriting

Billionaire sheikh carves his name in
desert so big it can be seen from SPACE

A big name in the desert ... Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan's handywork

A DESERT sheikh has carved out a big name for himself — by having his moniker etched in capital letters visible from space.

View from space ... mega-rich sheikh's name

Workmen scoured "HAMAD" into the sand on the orders of Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan.

The name is two miles across — with letters a kilometre high. It is so huge that the "H", the first "A" and part of the "M" have been made into waterways.

The mega-rich sheikh, 63 — a member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi — in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates — boasts a £14billion fortune that is second only to the Saudi king's.

His fleet of more than 200 cars — including seven Mercedes 500 SELs painted in different colours of the rainbow — is housed in a custom-built pyramid.

His name is etched on to an island he owns called Al Futaisi.