Rockall is a pyramid of volanic granite that sticks up out of the stormiest patch of the Atlantic like the fin of a gargantuan shark. The sea is so tempestuous here that it is almost impossible to determine the island’s height. For at least two centuries it was mistaken for Frisland, a mythical island posited by Venetian navigator Nicolò Zeno, and the equally mysterious island of Buss. Others even claim it is a fragment of the mythical Kingdom of Hy-Brazil, the land of eternal youth.
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The activists, from Greenpeace, hoisted a flag at the top of the 70ft-high rock and declared a new global state of Waveland, but stressed they did not want to own Rockall. Four campaigners will occupy the rock, taking refuge in a survival capsule, with one always “off-duty” on the support vessel MV Greenpeace. Chris Rose, deputy director of Greenpeace, said: “Four nations [Britain, Ireland, Iceland and Denmark] want the oil around Rockall. We do no recognise their right to develop it.”
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