rocklall???

Question

rockall, is it even that big and why does the english want it, it belongs to the Irish

Answer 1

Rockall belongs to Irish? phahh!! - you ll be saying that the Falkland Ilse belong to Argentina next!

Answer 2

One of the reasons We require Rockall is territorial claims over the Fishing rights around the area (see the cod wars of the 70's) also although there is no reported Natural resources exploited there yet due to the Atlantic Weather, tides, etc making it difficult to gain the supplies, the possibility is there.
Also the rock does make the Northern Approaches to the UK under Royal Navy control, therefore enabling during the 20th Century conflicts a stop and search ability within UK waters more legal.

Answer 3

Simple answer the Brits want it to extend their territorial waters further into the seas.

As a song sings ' Oh the empire it is finished, no foreign lands to sieze so the greedy eye of whitehall is turning tward the seas, 200 miles from Donegal there's a place that's called Rockall and the grasping hands of whitehall are grabbing at its walls.

Answer 4

It's disputed by the Irish. That's not the same as ownership. Possession is nine tenths of the law. Proximity is not a measure of ownership.

Answer 5

You mean ROCKALL.

The point is not that they want a lump of guano bespattered rock, it's the seabed around it they want. They may be oil or gas down there.

Answer 6

didn't know they even wanted it, after all no one lives there.