Dear members,

Here is something which I couldn't find one mention of using the
search engine. If you already talked about it, then sorry:

This is a quotation from Hillier, Tim: Sourcebook on Public
International Law; London: Cavendish, 1998 at pp. 265 ftnote 51:

"There actually was a floating island. Fletcher Ice Island (T-3) is
99% ice, seven miles wide, four miles across, and 100 feet thick. No
mere iceberg. It was sighted by an American in 1947, and has been
occupied by the US since 1952. Fletcher Ice Island meanders around
the Arctic Ocean. In 1961, for example, it was grounded on the
Alaskan coastline near Point arrow. In 1970, it was in the Baffin
Sea, 305 miles from Greenland (Denmark) and 200 miles from Ellesmere
Islnd (Canada). That year, Mario Jaime Escamilla was convicted of
involuntary manslaughter in a US Federal Court for the shooting death
of Bennie Lightsey while both were on Fletcher Ice Island. Bizarrely,
the Court of Appeals reversed and remanded the case on procedural
grounds, after first noting that it was 'unable to decide' the
jurisdictional issue. United States v Escamilla 467 F 2d 341, 344
(4th Cir 1972). That is to say: in the only recorded case of a
floating island, the court was unable to endorse the 'floating
island' theory as a basis for jurisdiction."

Now, my question is: where would this island be strolling right now
and if any other incident concerning it has been more recently
reported...

Lucas