Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Map of Sealand with territorial waters

Map of Sealand with territorial waters


Map describing the overlapping territorial claims of the micronation Sealand and the UK. This image illustrates the dispute, showing Sealand's position in relation to the UK's changing claim of territorial waters.

To summarise (see Sealand for full discussion), Sealand claims legitimacy as it was in international waters when it was founded - at the time, the UK claimed only 3 nautical miles. Sealand matched this claim of a circle of 3nm around Sealand, until the UK announced it would claim 12nm in 1987. Sealand also expanded its own claim to 12nm the day before.

This map is neutral. None of the lines are actually labelled as territorial border, just showing the distance from the UK or Sealand.

This image is also used in Territorial waters as illustration of overlapping claims.


 * Nominate and support. - Billpg 00:30, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose Commenting on the image itself I'm opposing due to the pixelated lines and because I think it would be much better as an SVG(which I don't think should be hard to do). HeartOfGold 00:49, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose Boring and unencyclopedic.  What is Sealand anyway?  --Midnight Rider 02:54, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Just read the article, this is Wikipedia, you know! ;-) Oppose by the way - if this is FP, then any locator map could be. Sealand as a FA would be OK, but this picture isn't up to FP standards. --Janke | Talk 07:16, 17 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose. Explains the concept well, but is of relatively poor quality (as HeartOfGold said). Would prefer to see this in SVG. -- Tewy  03:39, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose per aliasing on image, and if a map is going to be a FP it needs to be amazing. HighInBC 16:39, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose - This is just a typical map. There are thousands of them on Wikipedia. There is nothing unique about this one and it is not eye-catching. It's only purpose is to illustrate a point in an article. --Ineffable3000 03:56, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose I love the Sealand article, and this image is perfectly fine, but it is NOT a FP. Staxringold talkcontribs 15:33, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Raven4x4x 04:15, 25 September 2006 (UTC)