This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Jon Wertheim visited Sealand, the smallest area in the world to claim itself as a sovereign nation. Getting there—and staying overnight — was its own adventure.

Sealand, the world's smallest nation, originated from Fort Roughs in 1967. Paddy Roy Bates declared it an independent sovereign state and established a hereditary monarchy. A legal event occurred in ...

Prince Michael Bates, reigning monarch of the Principality of Sealand, has a unique plan if the British Navy rolls up to reclaim his micronation off England's coast: bring out his best china and make ...

SEALAND (AFP) - It's a hulking metal-and-concrete platform in the North Sea that has been run as an independent micronation in defiance of the British government for the last 54 years. But even on ...

In 1967, Major Roy Bates, a veteran of the Second World War, decided it would be nice to be royal; so he occupied a derelict concrete offshore WW2 anti-aircraft gun platform off the east coast of ...