Kingdom of Aqualandia (Marion)


 * ''Not to be confused with various other Kingdoms of Aqualandia.

Aqualandia was a self-declared kingdom, claiming sovereignty over "the 110 million square miles of undersea land outside the continental shelfs," as well as oil and mineral rights to resources contained therein, founded in 1961 by Lynn Marion Barnett, a Los Angeles Fire Department captain, and later governed by Michael H. Austin, a golf pro and instructor.

In 1968, the kingdom registered a California non-profit organisation under the name "Aqualandia Society for Undersea Development" (State ID #C0553575), attempting to raise funds (and attention) for their project to develop underwater dome cities.

Press Coverage

 * &mdash; a two-page advertisement promoting land purchases in the newly declared undersea kingdom