This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 26, 2023. The original video can be viewed here. Ok, name that country: It's planted opposite Europe, sitting proudly on the other ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 26, 2023. The original video can be viewed here. Ok, name that country: It's planted opposite Europe, sitting proudly on the other ...

But he was kicked out, and ended up finding Sealand, a former sea fort run by the British Navy during WWII that had been abandoned for 11 years and was out of the U.K.’s waters. Instead of ...

The invaders were held in a prison cell deep in one of Sealand’s imposing concrete towers while, as Prince Michael puts it in his rollicking 2015 memoir Holding the Fort, “a row of Dutch ...

At the time of the One Show's report on Sealand, the fort even had a resident cat. Given the fort can sometimes be cut off by the choppy North Sea weather, there's quite a serious stock of tinned ...

Going forward, the Sealand princes see their nation existing in two ways. In addition to the physical manifestation—the rusting fort jutting out of the water — Sealand will stay alive online ...

Despite their modest size, World War II servicemen lived on the forts, like Sealand, for more than a month at a time, working and sleeping in the hollowed out concrete pillars (Courtesy of Sealand ...

Constructed during the war, Sealand was originally called "Fort Roughs," a British Maunsell Sea Fort used to defend the United Kingdom against German air raids and naval threats. The fort was ...

Here is HM Fort Roughs (now Sealand) being towed into place in 1942. The installation didn't begin being used for its current purpose until a quarter of a century later. In 1967, former British ...