User:KDS4444/Travis McHenry

Travis McHenry is an American actor, director, and entrepreneur who is also the self-appointed dictatorial ruler of two micronations, one, called Calsahara, founded in 2009 and located within the state of California and the other, called the Grand Duchy of Westarctica, located on the continent of Arctica.

McHenry founded West Arctica in 2001 by claiming that a loophole in the Antarctic Treaty left a large swathe of land between 90° W and 150° W unclaimed by any nation. That treaty also stated that the same territory could not, by international agreement, be claimed by any nation, and so McHenry acted to claim it as an individual. In pursuit of this claim he sent letters to the governments of the United States, Great Britain, Russia and others explaining the nature of his claim, all of which, however, went unanswered.