New Atlantis (micronation)
The Republic of New Atlantis was a micronation and was founded on July 4, 1964, American Independence Day , by Leicester Hemingway in international waters in the Caribbean , around 15 kilometers off Jamaica near Bluefields on a 30 m² raft. Hemingway, younger brother of Ernest Hemingway , because he found bird droppings on his raft, took possession of half of the raft for the USA under the Guano Islands Act , and claimed the southern 15 m² of the raft for himself.
Hemingway planned to expand it into a center for marine research. He became "President" of New Atlantis, issued his own currency (the New Atlantis dollar, which was only available in paper form and not as coins) and printed his own postage stamps ( Winston Churchill , for example, could be seen on the 60-cent stamp ).
New Atlantis had six residents: Leicester Hemingway and his wife Doris, their daughters Anne and Hilary, who were seven and three years old at the time, and Edward K. Moss and his assistant Julia Cellini. Moss was a CIA agent, Cellini the sister of a Mafia boss.
New Atlantis was destroyed by a storm in 1966. A radio documentary by SWR from 2010 based on interviews with Leicester's daughters Anne and Hilary deals with the story of New Atlantis .
literature
- Leicester Hemingway, 1915-1982; New Atlantis Collection, 1964-66 Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
- Samuel Pyeatt Menefee, "Republics of the Reefs," Nation-Building on the Continental Shelf and in the World's Oceans, California Western Journal of International Law , vol. 25, no. 1, Fall, 1994, pp. 104-05.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russell Hale, " Throwback Thursday — Contents of a country: Leicester Hemingway's Republic of New Atlantis, " Harry Ransom Center - University of Texas at Austin (accessed March 19, 2017)
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lorenz Schröter: Hemingways Insel (PDF; 237 kB) In: SWR . July 27, 2010. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
