Dubai's Flame Roundabout as it used to be

Flame Roundabout was built in 1975 as part of the Airport and Sharjah Roads upgrade. Dubai's "new" Airport had not long opened. The Flame Roundabout will have been new arrivals' first glimpse of Dubai as it used to be. Its flame was "everlasting" but anyone driving around the Flame Roundabout had to look hard to spot the flame. Eventually the Flame Roundabout became a traffic obstacle as Dubai's traffic volumes increased. The Flame Monument was eventually relocated to a nearby traffic junction.