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It's actually not quite as crazy as it sounds. OK, it is as crazy as it sounds, but hear me out. Some inventor (Wolf Hilbertz) tried to build an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea through electrical mineral deposition on metal frames. He based the technique off of how coral plateaus accrete. There's a fascinating video essay on its attempted construction and failure on YouTube.
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The plan was pretty half baked and perhaps a bit of a venture capital cash grab attempt, and it turns out that nations also don't much like the idea of independent micronations popping up near their adjacent sea areas. The video is still very worth a watch if it sounds interesting!Edit: YT link is fixed. Thanks!
You could also destroy mountains and use the rubble to expand the coast.
It's really fucking stupid, but it would technically work.
Wouldn’t there be a lot of displaced water that needs to go somewhere?