The plan to move an entire country, the yacht club in the middle of Australia, the Samoan independence movement, and the kidnapping of half the population of Rapa Nui.
In the 1960s Australia proposed relocating the entire population of Nauru to a different island.
There’s a yacht club in the middle of the Australian Outback. They don’t get to sail too often.
Samoa won independence from New Zealand with a concerted campaign of extremely creative non-violent resistance.
In 1862 half of the population of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) were kidnapped by Peruvian slavers.
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