If you haven't heard of Sealand before, it is the site of one of Britain's Maunsell Naval Sea Forts that were utilized during WWII. This particular one ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Major Roy Bates declared Sealand's independence on the basis that the fortress island in international waters was nobody’s land ...

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.

"If we do not get enough money required to buy the micronation of Sealand, we will try to buy another small island somewhere and claim it as our own country," says the group.

Founding a new nation like Sealand The work is probably disproportionate to the reward Author DJ Stevens Publish Date June 19, 2019 Photograph by Ryan Lackey/Flickr ...

Sealand: It’s a hulking metal-and-concrete platform in the North Sea that has been run as an independent micronation in defiance of the UK government for the last 54 years.

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