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Sealand Put Up For Sale

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pour-at-a-40-for-Sealand dept.

antic writes "The Principality of Sealand is up for sale. The 550 square meter steel platform boasts "uninterrupted sea views", complete privacy and has been mentioned on Slashdot in the past for its offers of hosting outside the jurisdiction of (some) traditional laws."

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  1. I should also add by celardore · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not actually for sale, the owners are just offering a tenancy. Which makes it not such a sweet deal.

  2. Territorial Waters by TubeSteak · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sealand exists because in 1967, Britian's territorial waters extended only 3 miles out from the shore.

    Therefore, they could legitimately claim the fort as theirs. If they had tried to do that after 1987... it wouldn't have worked, because the 3-mile limit was changed to 12 miles.

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  3. Uninterrupted sea views? by Myrrlin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sealand is a bit of a running joke for the people of Harwich. I would contest their "uninterrupted sea views" as I'm fairly sure that the very brightly coloured (luminous yellow!) Hotel Continental situated on the cliffs of Harwich can be seen from it, hell... they can probably see it from Holland! It's also probably quite fire damaged at the moment having suffered a fire http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5110244.stm last year, and not having its own fire brigade or hospital services had to make use of the British ones.

  4. Re:Guns are the assembly code of politics. by dhaines · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing... After they have exhausted all other possibilities."
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