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 Hutt River Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In the early 1980s Hutt River Province declared itself to be a Kingdom, but soon afterwards reverted to its original status of Principality.
The Province's activities since 1995 have been considerably more low-key, although its 30th anniversary, on April 21, 2000, was attended by supporters and media from around the world.
Considered a joke by many and by others as a fine example of thumbing one's nose at the authorities, the continued existence of the Hutt River Province is at the least an interesting footnote in any chapter on the history of Australia's domestic policies, as well as in international legal considerations of what constitutes statehood.
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 Province of Bumbunga -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Province of Bumbunga was an Australian secessionist (additional info and facts about micronation) micronation located on a farm near (additional info and facts about Snowtown) Snowtown, (northeast of (The state capital of South Australia) Adelaide), (A state in south central Australia) South Australia during the 1970s and 1980s.
To that end he declared his 4 ((abbreviated `ha') a unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters)) hectare property to be independent of Australia as the Province of Bumbunga on 29 March, 1976, and assumed the position of and style of "Governor".
He intended to conduct weddings on this facility, during which soil from the appropriate (A region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government) county would be sprinkled on the ground.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pr/Province_of_Bumbunga.htm   (321 words)

  
 Hutt River Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Province's activities since 1995 have been considerably more low-key, although its 30th anniversary, on April 21, 2000, was attended by supporters and mediafrom around the world.
Hutt River Province is situated 595 km north of Perth, and isabout 75 square km in size.
Considered a joke by many and by others as a fine example of thumbing one's nose at the authorities, the continued existenceof the Hutt River Province is at the least an interesting footnote in any chapter on the history of Australia's domesticpolicies, as well as in international legal considerations of what constitutes statehood.
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 Micronation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hutt River Province Principality was the first manifestation of the phenomenon; it was founded in 1970, when Prince Leonard (born Leonard George Casley) declared his farming property independent after a dispute over wheat quotas.
One of the most recent examples of a micronation is the "Königreich Kreuzberg" (Kingdom Kreuzberg) which was founded in 2002 by Christel Göritz and her son Rick in Zweibrücken, Germany, on land previously occupied by a U.S. military base.
Sealand, a World War II-era anti-aircraft platform built in the English Channel beyond Britain's nautical limit, seized by a pirate radio group in 1967 as a base for their operations, and currently used as the site of a secure web-hosting facility.
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 Micronation -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Micronations should be distinguished from various entities which exercise effective governmental and military control over a territory, despite not being recognised as a state by most or all other states.
The (additional info and facts about Hutt River Province) Hutt River Province (Territory ruled by a prince) Principality was the first manifestation of the phenomenon; it was founded in 1970, when Prince Leonard (born Leonard George Casley) declared his farming property independent after a dispute over wheat quotas.
The Freie Republik Wendland, founded 1980 as part of a campaign to prevent the construction of a nuclear waste disposal facility in Gorleben, northern (A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990) Germany.
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 Micronation
The Hutt River Province Principality started the ball rolling in 1970, when Prince Leonard (born Leonard George Casley) declared his farming property independent after a dispute over wheat quotas.
Sealand, a WWII-era anti-aircraft platform built in the English Channel beyond Britain's nautical limit, seized by a pirate radio group in 1967 as a base for their operations, and currently used as the site of a secure web-hosting facility.
Despite its prevalence there has been only limited academic attention paid to the micronation phenomenon; such attention that has been given has for the most part been concerned with the apparently anomalous legal situations affecting such entities as Sealand and the Hutt River Province, or in the creation of role-playing entities for instructional purposes.
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 Empire of Atlantium - History 10500 - 10518
During the 10501-505 (1982-86) tenure of the Duggan government cordial communications were exchanged with other independent microstates, including the Hutt River Province and the State of Rainbow Creek.
Similar approaches to the Province of Bumbunga, a British monarchist entity located within the State of South Australia, however resulted in a formal declaration of hostilities which were eventually concluded in the Empire's favour.
By 10504 (1985) the vexillological system of Atlantium had come to the attention of the Flag Society of Australia Inc. It featured in a paper presented to the XI International Conference of Vexillology in Madrid by Mr Ralph G Bartlett, on the subject of the flags of the independent states of Australia.
www.atlantium.org /history.html   (980 words)

  
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They seceded from the Commonwealth of Australia by Leonard George Casley who became the sovereign Prince, when the status was altered from a Republic to a Principality to gain benefits in law as a principality.
The flag is blue with the coat of arms of the province in the centre.
This flag, described by Brendan Jones seems to be the one of another self-proclaimed country in Australia, the Province of Bumbunga.
www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/au-self.html   (411 words)

  
 Glossary - B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Province in northern Poland; 1916: German military commander issued local stamps.
A stamp cut in half which has been used to pay the postage at half the face value of the original stamp or during shortages of stamps.
Canadian province; 1847: first post office at Victoria, 1860: external communications were via United States expresses, such as Wells Fargo, US stamps sold, 1865: superseded by separate issues, 1866; united as part of Canadian Confederation, 1871, July 20: became a Canadian province as part of British Columbia, see: Canada.
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 The Imperial Collection - Province of Bumbunga - Page 1
The Province of Bumbunga was created on 29th March, 1976, when former English circus monkey trainer and uranium prospector-turned farmer Alex Brackstone declared his 4 hectare property near Snowtown, South Australia, to be independent of the Commonwealth of Australia, and himself to be its Governor.
In 1983 the Governor effectively subdivided the Province, by building a cairn and allocating a plot of his territory to the newborn Prince William, son of HRH Charles, Prince of Wales and HRH Princess Diana.
They were affixed to the rear of mail leaving the Province, and covered postage to the nearest Australian post office, where Australian stamps were affixed to ensure ongoing transmission.
www.imperial-collection.net /bumbunga01.html   (693 words)

  
 Province of Bumbunga - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Province of Bumbunga - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In November, 1975, the Labor government of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was dismissed under controversial circumstances, by Governor-General John Kerr.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Province of Bumbunga contains research on
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 Micronation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Hutt River Province Principality started the ball rolling in 1970 when Prince Leonard (born Leonard George declared his farming property independent after a over wheat quotas.
1976 witnessed the creation of the Province Bumbunga on a rural property near Snowtown Australia by an eccentric British monarchist named Brackstone and a dispute over flood damage farm properties led to the creation of Independent State of Rainbow Creek in northeastern Victoria by Tom Barnes in 1979.
In New South Wales a political protest by a group Sydney teenagers led to the 1981 creation of the Empire of Atlantium and a mortgage foreclosure dispute led and Stephanie Muirhead of Rockhampton Queensland to secede as the Principality of in 1993.
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 Encyclopedia: Micronation
The Principality of the Hutt River Province is a self-proclaimed independent nation north of Perth, Western Australia.
Settlement The town of Snowtown is located in the Mid North of South Australia 145 km north of Adelaide at 33°47′ S 138°12′ E. The town initially grew up around the railway station at what is now Snowtown.
A borough is a local government administrative subdivision used in the Canadian province of Quebec, in some states of the United States, and formerly in New Zealand.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Micronation   (9420 words)

  
 Micronation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Hutt River Province Principality started the ball rolling in 1970, when Prince Leonard (born Leonard GeorgeCasley) declared his farming property independent after a dispute over wheat quotas.
1976 witnessed the creation of the Province of Bumbunga on a rural property near Snowtown, SouthAustralia, by an eccentric British monarchist named Alex Brackstone, and a dispute over flood damage to farm properties led to the creation of the Independent State of Rainbow Creek in northeastern Victoria by Tom Barnes in 1979.
In New South Wales, a political protest by a groupof Sydney teenagers led to the 1981 creation ofthe Empire of Atlantium, and a mortgage foreclosure dispute led George andStephanie Muirhead of Rockhampton, Queensland to secede as the Principality of Marlborough in 1993.
www.therfcc.org /micronation-38129.html   (2440 words)

  
 Regi : Micronations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Hutt River Province passports and honours were issued like British passports and honours – to anybody who could afford them.
In 1976, Alex Brackstone, a British-born former uranium prospector, postmaster, and – supposedly – circus-monkey trainer, reacted to what he saw a the rising tide of Australian republicanism by declaring his four-hectare South Australian farm to be the Province of Bumbunga, with the Queen as head of state in perpetuity.
Brackstone was last heard of in 1999, when he apparently tried to fend off illegal firearms charges by claiming immunity from prosecution as the head of a foreign state.
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 Glossaire philatelique, lettre Bn-Bz
British Columbia and Vancouver Island: Canadian province; 1847: first post office at Victoria, 1860: external communications were via U.S. expresses, such as Wells Fargo, US stamps sold, 1865: superseded by separate issues, 1866; united as part of Canadian Confederation, 1871, July 20: became a Canadian province as part of British Columbia, see: Canada.
Buenos Aires: province in Argentina; 1771: earliest known postmarks, 1814: independent posts established, 1858, Apr. 29-64: issued own stamps as part of Argentine Confederation, 1860-73: stamps of Great Britain used, 1860-78: stamps of France used, 1862, Oct. 4: last issue of own stamps, became a province of Argentina.
Bumbunga Province: bogus Australian secessionist state three hectares north of Adelaide.
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 Encyclopedia: Province of Bumbunga
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 Anniversaries and Holidays - Microwiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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29 Province of Bumbunga created, Alex Brackstone proclaimed governor, 1976
21 Hutt River Province Principality established, Leonard Casey declared Prince, 1970
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 The Imperial Collection - Province of Bumbunga - Page 4
The Imperial Collection - Province of Bumbunga - Page 4
back-stamped and cancelled at the Province of Bumbunga
Postally Used Cover - official communication from the office of the Governor to the Prime Minister of Atlantium
www.imperial-collection.net /bumbunga04.html   (145 words)

  
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