::Please try to understand.  We are not discussing habitable land.  It is a rock.  It is 300 miles from Scotland.  It is in international waters.  There is no equivalence between it and Austria or Hawaii. Part of the original UK claim – and the UK Rockall Act – was legally reversed when the UK signed the Law of the Sea convention.  Everyone ignores the UK claim.  Green peace or Wave Land have occupied it in the past and will next June.  The UK do not own it, they can’t own it.  If it was habitable then perhaps they could own it.  However it is nearer to Donegal than to Scotland. Please try to understand, ownership of a remote rock is more akin to ownership of an iceberg.