The guy who spent 45 days on this island is perhaps a lot crazier, but it seems that not unlike the status of
island tax havens whose financial worth far exceeds their territories, it would be nice to think more globally and become citizens of Rockall/Waveland.
Rockall
At 21:40 hours BST on the night of 10 June 1997, Greenpeace activists staged a dramatic occupation of the barren and tiny island of Rockall (25 meters across and 20 meters high) in the Atlantic Ocean - 450 kilometers from the Scottish mainland. Rockall lies at the heart of the Atlantic Frontier, an area earmarked for oil exploration. The strategic occupation was part of Greenpeace's Atlantic Frontier campaign which aimed to bring about a halt to oil exploration in the region.
Al, one of the three Greenpeace activists, had this to say on the first morning of the crew's occupation of the rock, "The seas around Rockall, potentially rich in oil, are fought over by four nations - Britain, Denmark, Iceland and Ireland. By seizing Rockall, Greenpeace claims these seas for the planet and all its peoples. No-one has the right to unleash this oil onto our threatened climate."
At dawn on the morning of 16 June, six days after the initial occupation, the world was taken by surprise as the sun rose on a new kind of country with Rockall as its capital. Greenpeace had rejected complete British sovereignty over Rockall and declared a new global state called Waveland.
The flag of the Global State of Waveland was raised on the rock by the three Greenpeace activists Peter, Meike and Al.
Following the flag raising ceremony Waveland, the new Global country was summoned to life on the World Wide Web.
With its one flat ledge less than 20 meters above sea level and only around 4 by 2.5 meters wide, Rockall became the world's smallest and most vulnerable capital city.
Continent: Europe/North Atlantic Ocean - Coordinates: 57.35.48N 13.41.19W - Zones: WAZ 14, ITU 27 - IOTA: EU-189 (ex EU-164) - Allocations: MS, MM
Rockall (Irish: Rocal, Scottish Gaelic: Rocabarraigh) is an extremely small (Area 784.3 m2 = 8,442 sq ft, Length 31 m = 102 ft, Width 25.3 m = 83 ft, Hight 21,4m = 70ft)
An uninhabited, remote rocky islet in the North Atlantic Ocean. Historically the islet has been referred to in Irish folklore, and since the late sixteenth century it has been noted in written records …
In the twentieth century the location of the islet became a major concern due to oil and fishing rights, spurring continued debate amongst several European nations. Fewer than twenty individuals have ever been confirmed to have landed on Rockall. -
In 1956 the British scientist James Fisher referred to the island as "the most isolated small rock in the oceans of the world." The ownership of Rockall is disputed, as are the exploration and fishing rights on the surrounding Rockall Bank and Trough, and the Rockall Plateau. The islet is claimed by Denmark (for the Faroe Islands), Iceland, Ireland and the United Kingdom. All four governments have made submissions to the commission set up under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
The United Kingdom, for administrative purposes, initially treated Rockall as part of Inverness-shire, under the terms of the Island of Rockall Act 1972. Subsequent UK Acts of Parliament have affirmed the islet's position as part of the Comhairle nan Eilean Siar council area for local government functions.