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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
In 2016, Westarctica was one of several well-known [[micronation]]s offering a relatively easy citizenship process: essentially anyone who took the time to fill out the application and pledged to follow the [[Charter of Westarctica]] was approved. As a result of this ease of procuring citizenship, Westarctica became an extremely popular stop for participants of the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen (GISHWHES, pronounced ''gish-wes''), an annual week-long competitive media scavenger hunt held each August. GISHWHES was created by actor Misha Collins in 2011 after a publicity stunt to help the television series Supernatural (on which Collins appears) win a People's Choice Award. The competition holds a world record for being the largest media scavenger hunt ever to take place, and several additional world records. | In 2016, Westarctica was one of several well-known [[micronation]]s offering a relatively easy citizenship process: essentially anyone who took the time to fill out the application and pledged to follow the [[Charter of Westarctica]] was approved. As a result of this ease of procuring citizenship, Westarctica became an extremely popular stop for participants of the [[GISH|Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen]] (GISHWHES, pronounced ''gish-wes''), an annual week-long competitive media scavenger hunt held each August. GISHWHES was created by actor Misha Collins in 2011 after a publicity stunt to help the television series Supernatural (on which Collins appears) win a People's Choice Award. The competition holds a world record for being the largest media scavenger hunt ever to take place, and several additional world records. | ||
That year, one of the items participants were required to collect was a citizenship certificate from an unrecognized country. Westarctica, [[Kingdom of Ruritania|Ruritania]], and [[Grand Duchy of Flandrensis|Flandrensis]] were three common micronations whose citizenship was highly prized during this event. | That year, one of the items participants were required to collect was a citizenship certificate from an unrecognized country. Westarctica, [[Kingdom of Ruritania|Ruritania]], and [[Grand Duchy of Flandrensis|Flandrensis]] were three common micronations whose citizenship was highly prized during this event. | ||
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===August 2nd=== | ===August 2nd=== | ||
The date of August 2nd was selected because it was the first day the floodgates of citizenship were opened to the public as well as being the approximate mid-point of that first week of August. | The date of August 2nd was selected because it was the first day the floodgates of citizenship were opened to the public as well as being the approximate mid-point of that first week of August. | ||
==Donation of Mount Isherwood== | |||
On 29 July 2018, Grand Duke Travis began receiving requests from GISHERs who were seeking to obtain a deed of land that had been granted to a rock, tree, or other natural object. This was in the spirit of the Jackson Oak, a 95-year old oak tree in Athens, Georgia that legally owns itself and the land under its branches. In response, His Royal Highness began donating tiny plots of land surrounding [[Mount Isherwood]], located on the coast of Westarctica between the [[Martin Peninsula]] and the [[Bear Peninsula]]. | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||