Rockall

'Well, Rockall is a bit too far away to be joined up to the National Grid, you know.'

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

Two hundred miles from Donegal, there's a place that's called Rockall

Rockall 1998

On the 24th of May he saw a small solitary crag, called Rockall, not far from the Orkney Islands.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson William Stevenson 1784

According to The Guardian the UK yesterday submitted an application for unilateral claim to the seabed around the area known as Rockall, which the UK,

AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media 2009

'Hello Mum, I'm on Rockall': The £100bn piece of rock

'Hello Mum, I'm on Rockall': The £100bn piece of rock 2011

Rockall is a stormy crag 240 miles off the Orkneys, and the last land grab of the British empire.

'Hello Mum, I'm on Rockall': The £100bn piece of rock 2011

Today, Britain, Ireland, Denmark and Iceland all claim Rockall, and within weeks the UN will examine rival claims to the mining and fishing rights of thousands of square miles of seabed around it.

'Hello Mum, I'm on Rockall': The £100bn piece of rock 2011

It was the height of the cold war and their secret mission was to annex the uninhabitable islet of Rockall and claim it as the last land grab of the British Empire.

'Hello Mum, I'm on Rockall': The £100bn piece of rock 2011

Oil billions at stake as UN examines British claims to Rockall

Charities call for tax on bank bonuses 2011

I telephoned my mother on a satellite phone: "Hello Mum, I'm on Rockall."

'Hello Mum, I'm on Rockall': The £100bn piece of rock 2011