Sealand
Built in World War Two as an anti-aircraft base against German bombers, the derelict platform was taken over 40 years ago by retired army major Paddy Roy Bates who went to live there with his family.
He declared the platform, perched seven miles off the east coast of England just outside Britain's territorial waters, to be the principality of Sealand.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070108/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_island
He declared the platform, perched seven miles off the east coast of England just outside Britain's territorial waters, to be the principality of Sealand.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070108/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_island
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now that has to be the best idea in the history of mans ability ot think. make your own country. your own laws. hell, put your face on the stamp. i love it. that has become my goal in life..... 0 -
The family saw off an attempt by the Royal Navy to evict them and also an attempt in 1978 by a group of German and Dutch businessmen to seize Sealand by force. "I was held prisoner out there for three or four days and then managed to get back to England," Roy's son Michael told BBC Radio on Monday.
"I slid down a rope out of a helicopter with my father and a couple of comrades and took the place back against armed opposition. It was quite a high point in my life," he said.0
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