Comment by ifwinterco
7 months ago
This isn't quite true for Ascension or the Falkland Islands, they were both uninhabited when discovered and they're not part of any existing country
7 months ago
This isn't quite true for Ascension or the Falkland Islands, they were both uninhabited when discovered and they're not part of any existing country
I'm not sure of the point you're making.
Sure, there's a lot of evidence that they were "terra nullius" before being claimed for the British empire. But the Chagos archipelago was inhabited utill its population was compulsorily expelled in the mid twentieth century.
I was surprised to discover that Ascension even has a ccTLD. I guess I assumed that the population was wholly military.
> I was surprised to discover that Ascension even has a ccTLD
That's because it was created by the same guy who created .io and .sh - British DNS "pioneer" Paul Kane, who clearly had a passion for finding remaining corners of the British Empire that could "claim" a bit of internet land (for his own profit).