Kingdom of Aqualandia (Hensley)
From Kook Science
- Not to be confused with various other Kingdoms of Aqualandia.
| Kingdom of Aqualandia |
||
|---|---|---|
| Government | ||
| • | King | Kirby J. Hensley |
| Declared kingdom | ||
| • | Coronation of Hensley | 11 April 1986[1] |
Aqualandia was a self-declared kingdom, claiming sovereignty over the territory under the oceans of the planet Earth. The kingdom was founded by Kirby J. Hensley,[1] with citizenship in the nation offered for sale to any paying customer willing to cough up $35. It was almost certainly inspired by, and one might propose a usurpation of, Barnett and Austin's Kingdom of Aqualandia, a project that was the object of sporadic press attention during the 1960s.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Lutheran Standard 26: 72, 1986, "Dr. Kirby J. Hensley, bishop of the Universal Life Church. Modesto, Calif., was scheduled to be crowned April 11 as King of Aqualandia, a country — formed in the 1950s — that claimed the ocean floor as its land mass, according to a news release from the church's international headquarters in Modesto."