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His Royal Highness, Grand Duke Travis is the founder and current Head of State of Westarctica, a micronation, new country project, and environmental non-profit corporation. In August 2001, while serving in the U.S. Navy, Travis discovered a loophole in the Antarctic Treaty which legally allowed him to claim a huge swath of land on the Antarctic continent for himself.
The Grand Duke has been involved with various micronations, and has founded three of his own, starting in 1996 with the Kingdom of Casbah, then Westarctica in 2001, and finally Calsahara in 2009. In between these projects, he served as a governor for two provinces of Molossia.
June 4th, the Grand Duke's birthday, is celebrated as a national holiday.