Measuring 20 by 37 metres, the &ldquo;Orsos Island&rdquo; has no engine but can be anchored anywhere its owners choose and then towed to another location the other side of the world if they so wish, Hungarian-born Gabor Orsos said. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/jun/island.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 312px; " /> Get carried away: The island has a price tag of Rs 37 crore and will be able to house 12 people. Pic/AFP &ldquo;The interest has been massive from all over the world, from Australia, China, the United States. We have already had the first pre-orders and we have some potential buyers coming from Australia next week,&rdquo; the entrepreneur said. The island is environmentally friendly and fully self-sufficient, with solar panels and wind generators providing power. It can sleep 12 people plus crew and offers 1,000 square metres of living space. The only problem is that no &ldquo;islands&rdquo; have been produced yet and that once manufacturing starts it will initially be in land-locked Slovakia. But Orsos expects the first finished products to be ready in 18 months&rsquo; to two years&rsquo; time, and for the islands to be transported down the Danube river into the Black Sea &mdash; and then to wherever the customer wants.

An Austrian firm has come up what it hopes is the next big thing for the mega-rich: a man-made, floating island with a list price of 5.2 million euros (Rs 37 crore), the company's founder said yesterday.

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