It sits six nautical miles off the coast of Suffolk, about 60 feet above the North Sea, its total surface area is barely half the size of a football pitch (or, in traditional terms, 0.00002% the size of Wales) and, since September 2, 1967, has claimed independence from the United Kingdom.
It is the El Reg standards bureau which defines are in Waleses, isn’t it?
I think Wales as a unit of area pre-dates El Reg but yes it is in the El Reg version of SI.
El Reg uses nanoWales, so the article should actually put it as 200 of those.
Do they use the lumpy or the flattened wales?
They have written about Sealand a few times. Oddly they seem to refer to its area using archaic units: 550 square metres. https://www.theregister.com/2007/01/12/pirate_bay_buys_island/
To measure in fractions of a Wales seems right to me. It would be completely wrong to express it in buses, elephants or blue whales.
Four ninths of the surface area of an Olympic swimming pool
…six nautical miles off the coast of Suffolk…
As the crow flies. But not when it’s windy.
Ah, the Register’s indispensable aid to journalism https://www.theregister.com/2007/08/24/vulture_central_standards/
BiW: I’m not sure why you would use the flattened Wales, getting out the iron would be a pain.
Doesn’t the lumpy Wales give you the same fractal problem as with coastlines? Namely, the greater the resolution you look at the longer the coastline gets?
I’m surprised this place isn’t on the Numberwatch list of climate change effects. An omission by the list compiler or an oversight by the climate change industry?
Well, we are on the DeSmog list of climate deniers. Hell, I am, so you lot……
On the other hand the Nunberwatch list is time limited on the account of death…….
No, I was referring to Sealand. I can hear the mellifluous tones of David Attenborough now, informing us of the rare Sealand cockroach threatened with extinction by rising sea levels.