Islandia Declares Bir Tawil Protectorate

As one of his outgoing measures HRH Prince Regent Marshall Meyer has declared Bir Tawil a “protectorate” of the Principality of Islandia. Why has he done this? In 2019 a group of Islandians were some of the few people to ever travel to Bir Tawil. If you have not heard about Bir Tawil it is […]

Principality of Islandia to elect new head of state

For the first time in our history the Principality of Islandia are to elect a new head of state. The Principality of Islandia is the Micronation element to the Lets Buy An Island Project. Let’s Buy An Island was set up by a group of like minded individuals to crowd fund buying a tropical island, […]

We made it to 2021 – buying an island during coronavirus

While the dream of buying an island, for us at least, has been 10+ years in the making, the current incarnation of the project has been going for nearly 3 years. For all of our original members, it started off as something very simple: a small Facebook group for people potentially interested in buying an […]

How to Successfully Buy An Island?

How do you successfully buy an island? How do you go about buying an island? As some of the not-so-many people to have achieved this, we feel at that we have some authority on this kind of thing. How do you buy an island? Much like moving abroad seems daunting to those that have never […]

When Islandia visited Sealand

The story of when Islandia visited Sealand. f you’ve made it to our website, but have somehow not heard of the Principality of Sealand, then I would be very surprised, but to summarize, when it comes to Micronations, new-nation projects, and gaining international recognition, Sealand are by far the benchmark the rest of us view […]

Foreign relations of the Principality of Islandia

The Let’s Buy An Island Project has been a somewhat complex and multifaceted thing. The initial aim was to get a group of people together and crowd fun buying an island, anywhere! Whether the island was in the Caribbean, or somewhere else, we did not care, what we wanted to do was buy an island. […]

Lets Buy An Island Kickstarter

The world is starting to open up again – Belize included – as we all learn to live with the realities of this Coronavirus situation and find a balance between the old normal and the new one. For the Let’s Buy an Island project, this means it’s time to refocus on developing our beautiful new […]

Belize (and thus Islandia) to Open to Tourism

Belize has announced that Belize’s sole international port of call, Philip Goldson International Airport (BZE), is due to open from August 15th, 2020 as part 5 of the countries reopening process after coronavirus, for the first time since shutdowns began in the region in March. Belize has had minimal cases of Covid-19 (less than 50 […]

What Does The Opening of Belize Mean for us?

At the end of June, Belize announced that as Phase 5 of its Covid-19 reopening plan, the country would once again be opening to welcome tourism on August 15th. The opening of the country comes with various rules, regulations, and recommendations that can be viewed here, but what does this mean for LetsBuyAnIsland.com? To read […]

Feeding the Island

How do we go about feeding the island? With the world currently on hiatus, there is not all that much we can do about colonizing our island for the time being. But while we dream about what to build and how we could survive a pandemic on the barest of resources, we can also fantasize […]