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These Are the Most Expensive Private Islands of the Rich and Famous

Posted by Bill Rippel on August 23, 2023 - 2:39am

13. Elon Musk

Location: Biak Island, Indonesia
Purchased: TBD
Current Value: Unknown

If you’ve been reading the tech headlines lately, then you’ve probably seen SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space travel company, a time or two. SpaceX is an ambitious project, as it wants humans to land on the moon. Indonesia wants to be a part of SpaceX’s future, and it offered up Biak Island to Musk as a base.

Musk has yet to accept the proposal, but, already, the debate over Biak’s future is raging. Biak isn’t uninhabited, and many of the people who have been there for centuries are the Abrauw indigenous people, along with a dozen other ethnic peoples. Biak is home to 100,000 residents, and it is slightly larger than London.