Stamps From The Smallest Country (?) In The World.

Had to Google this Country. Seems their stamp issues are directed at collectors. No other function for them. Country is actually a WWII platform sitting in the water.

Sealand

https://goscf.com/t/58625&SearchTerms=sea

Sealand.
https://goscf.com/t/22485

Taking a page from the San Marino playbook perhaps?

Very interesting threads redwood & rod.


Reminds me of New Atlantis. Simply a Barge sitting in the Ocean. Ernest Hemmingway's younger brother tried to make it a Country. Even sold stamps to raise money for a marine research facility. This came to a halt when a storm destroyed the Country (Barge) in 1966.

The dark side of Sealand is disturbing. The Stamp A Day website contained an article which suggests the nation can no longer claim to be in International waters:

"They have no territorial sea of their own, and their presence does not affect the delimitation of the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone or the continental shelf". Since 1987, Sealand has lain within the United Kingdom's territorial waters."

The Principality of Sealand is an unrecognized state in the North Sea. While it has been described as the world's smallest country, Sealand is not officially recognized by any established sovereign state in spite of Sealand's government's claim that it has been de facto recognized by the United Kingdom and Germany. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, in force since 1994, states "Artificial islands, installations and structures do not possess the status of islands. They have no territorial sea of their own, and their presence does not affect the delimitation of the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone or the continental shelf".

Vatican City remains the world's smallest country by land area with only 0.44 squared kilometers.

Good grief...

Have had an ongoing debate with my 13yr old over this place. He insists it's a country!

Finally convinced him last summer, during the world cup - told him to be considered a 'country' they have to have a soccer team - and a field!!

On my list to get him some of the stamps - they're cool! It will naturally just re-ignite the debate!!

Perhaps..."The Queen is not amused".

As a collector of Esperanto topicals, I want to get stamps from the Republic of Rose Island, a short-lived micronation on a platform in the Adriatic Sea.

erilaz

Wiki has a little info on the topic:

Rosa's actions were viewed by the Italian government as a ploy to raise money from tourists while avoiding national taxation. Whether or not this was the real reason behind Rosa's micronation, the Italian government's response was swift: a group of four carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza officers landed on the "Isola delle Rose" and assumed control. The platform's Council of Government is said to have sent a telegram, presumably to the Italian government, to protest the "violation of its sovereignty and the injury inflicted on local tourism by the military occupation", but this was ignored.
On 13 February 1969,[1] the Italian Navy used explosives to destroy the facility, an act later portrayed on postage stamps issued by Rosa's self-declared Government in exile.

I know. That's why the name of the country in my post links to the Wikipedia article.

I also wanted to include a link to a far more informative article (with pictures of stamps!) that's in the Internet Archive, but the forum software only allows the last half of the link to be clickable. Here's the link, but you'll have to copy the whole URL and paste it into your browser:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130516031853/http://www.cifr.it/forumarticolo1.html#roseancora

For the record, the esperanto Opt.

Thanks for that, Rod! I have a Netflix account, so I'll definitely check it out.

Update: I just finished watching the movie, and it's quite entertaining. The stamps are mentioned in the film, and the sheet shown in Rod's post appears during the end credits.

Thanks for the update, Erilaz
I do not have Netflix, just Kayo.