Posted on 07/16/2018 2:35:55 PM PDT by ETL
No, I was the fool who somehow wrote 2 hour instead of Three Hour Tour. To my lasting shame and guilt.
Now I see your excellent Gilligan’s images. Should have carefully gone through the whole thread.
A few feet away to the new island is still enough space to get people like me into trouble.
Actually, someone already tried something similar. They found a reef in the pacific that was just below sea level and hauled a bunch of sand/gravel there to build it up into an island. Then they proclaimed it a new sovereign country under their control.
The problem was that their new “country” didn’t have an army or navy, so the nearest country just sent an armed naval vessel there, and said “this belongs to us now”.
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