On the starboard bow.Behold, the world's smallest state… It's a micronation in the extreme, a principality which sits—or stands—only seven miles off the coast of England… Its self-described reigning ...

Sealand participates in various sporting events, often with athletes from various nations volunteering to represent the nation. In 2007, the popular torrent site, The Pirate Bay, attempted to ...

A BRIT is the leader of a remote island in the middle of the ocean - and claims it's the smallest country in the world. Michael Bates became the leader of "Sealand", a platform 7.5 miles off the ...

A concrete island off the coast of England — built during World War II as an anti-aircraft base — is up for sale. The principality of Sealand is the smallest independent nation in the world.

Some of the threats to Sealand's independence have come from the UK — in 1978 mercenaries employed by Alexander Achenbach invaded the island, but were eventually captured. Sealand Gov, YouTube ...

HavenCo's founder left in 2003 and a fire hit Sealand in 2006. King Roy, now grown quite old, is ready to sell his kingdom to the highest bidder, and The Pirate Bay hopes to be the one hoisting ...

Major Roy Bates declared Sealand's independence on the basis that the fortress island in international waters was nobody’s land. cambridgenews Load mobile navigation. ... Sealand in the time of ...

You’re probably too young to remember Sealand. Back in the late Sixties and early Seventies, these kooks had seized an old oil rig (or something to that effect) off the coast of England, and ...

An aerial image shows the Principality of Sealand, some 11 kilometres off the coast of southeast England, on September 16, 2021. It's a hulking metal-and-concrete platform in the North Sea that ...

The story of the improbable micronation of Sealand. What’s cooler than owning your own private island? Owning your own private principality, of course.

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Jon Wertheim visited Sealand, the smallest area in the world to claim itself as a sovereign nation. Getting there—and staying overnight — was its own ...