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Antarctic Micronational Union

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Antarctic Micronational Union
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Founded6 December 2008
TypeIntermicronational organization
PurposeRegulate micronational claims in Antarctica, caring for the natural environment
LeaderYaroslav Mar
Staff (2025)
9 member states
Websiteamu.lostisland.org

The Antarctic Micronational Union (AMU) is an intermicronational organization of self imaginative self proclaimed nations that aims to regulate micronational claims in Antarctica.[1][2][3][4][5] The purpose of the AMU is to protect the claims of its members against other claimants.[6][7][8]

History

File:AMU Sectioned.png
Map of Antarctica divided by micronation claims

The Antarctic Micronational Union was founded on 6 December 2008 by the Grand Duchy of Flandrensis, Mary State, and the Kingdom of Finismund to solve the conflict between these micronations on the one side, and the Grand Duchy of Westarctica on the other.[9] The conflict ended with Westarctica signing the West Antarctic Treaty and joining the AMU on 24 September 2010.[10][11][12][13]

After undergoing a number of reforms and periods of inactivity, the AMU was revived to its present state on February 24, 2020. The Administrative-General of the AMU since September 2014 is Yaroslav Mar, the President of Lostisland, re-elected to another term in February 2020.[14]

Members

The former AMU website listed 15 member micronations.[15] In 2016, AUM was dissolved, and the nine micronations subsequently signed a new treaty. One of the goals of this move was to remove inactive micronations from the membership list.[16]

Members are the following:[17]

References

  1. ↑ Lonely Planet Kids (2015) (in en). You Rule!: Create Your Own Country (Lonely Planet Kids). Lonely Planet. p. 13. ISBN 978-1743607848. 
  2. ↑ Mamchitz, Roman (August 28, 2010). "Родезийская война в Антарктиде". Частный Корреспондент. http://www.chaskor.ru/article/rodezijskaya_vojna_v_antarktide_19367. 
  3. ↑ Sharukho I. N., Soroka A. V. (2017) (in ru). Геополитика и современная политическая карта мира. МГУ имени А. А. Кулешова. p. 71. ISBN 978-985-568-358-3. 
  4. ↑ "Гражданство виртуальной страны" (in Russian). 14 December 2015. https://tvmag.ru/article/lifestyle/grazhdanstvo-virtualnoy-strany/. 
  5. ↑ Pavlov, Olga; Sablukova, Maria (2019). "Правовой статус Антарктики" (in Russian). Актуальные проблемы юриспруденции (Novosibirsk: Association of Scientific Employees "Siberian Academic Book) 5 (21): 110. ISSN 2587-9227. https://www.elibrary.ru/download/elibrary_37786343_49892403.pdf. Retrieved 26 February 2023. 
  6. ↑ Kiptenko, V. K.; Lyashenko, M. Y. (2014). "Генетична типологія мікронацій (віртуальних держав)" (in uk). Географія та туризм 24: 173–184. http://irbis-nbuv.gov.ua/cgi-bin/irbis_nbuv/cgiirbis_64.exe?C21COM=2&I21DBN=UJRN&P21DBN=UJRN&IMAGE_FILE_DOWNLOAD=1&Image_file_name=PDF/gt_2014_27_25.pdf. 
  7. ↑ Skorenko, Tim (August 28, 2021). "Виртуальные государства: Советская республика Америки, вольная Антарктида и царь Николай III". Мир фантастики и фэнтези. https://www.mirf.ru/science/virtualnye-gosudarstva/. 
  8. ↑ Jacobs, Frank (16 February 2024). "Westarctica: The micronation with a real-world purpose". https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/westarctica-the-micronation-with-a-real-world-purpose/. 
  9. ↑ Hobbs, Harry; Williams, George (2022). Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty. Cambridge University Press. pp. 126–161. ISBN 9781009150125. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/micronations-and-the-search-for-sovereignty/performing-sovereignty/3D31DD6DD65A728DC2AD7C10E94F5D90#IDXl-tgt-1419. 
  10. ↑ Kharlamov, Sergey. "Шутники, мошенники и отщепенцы: кто и зачем создает виртуальные государства" (in Russian). https://ruposters.ru/news/29-08-2017/virtualnye-gosudarstva. 
  11. ↑ Bahareth, Mohammad (2011). The world of micronations : for those who are tired of existing incompetent governments and are longing for something new and refreshing (1. ed.). Bloomington: iUniverse. pp. 227. ISBN 9781462069262. https://www.worldcat.org/title/940648727. 
  12. ↑ Zhmilevsky, Vladislav (2017). Специфические территории. Международная классификация. Kazan: Buk. p. 18. ISBN 9785906954329. https://bukbook.ru/media/files/book/book/Zhmilevskij_V_D_Spetsificheskie_territorii._Mezhdunarodnaya_klassifikatsiya.pdf. 
  13. ↑ "Опираясь на ветер". https://zarubejom.ru/photo/opirayas-na-veter/. 
  14. ↑ "History". https://amu.lostisland.org/about/. 
  15. ↑ "Members". https://antarcticunion.wordpress.com/members/. 
  16. ↑ "About the AMU". https://amu.lostisland.org/about/. 
  17. ↑ "Members". https://amu.lostisland.org/members/. 
  18. ↑ Veselov, Yan. "Себе на уме: феномен виртуальных государств и микронаций" (in Russian). https://trends.rbc.ru/trends/social/634e62769a794711b65adaa3. 
  19. ↑ "Members". https://antarcticunion.wordpress.com/members/. 



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