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Visual Storytelling: The Transformative Power of Island Photography

In the realm of visual storytelling, few mediums possess the enchanting allure of island photography and videography. Through the lens of a camera and with the use of a video editor, islands become more than just geographical formations; they transform into captivating narratives that evoke emotions, capture cultures, and inspire wanderlust. The combination of landscape, […]

Let’s Buy An Island – all eyes forward!

Buying an island is something that is hard to put a timeframe on. Anyone who has bought property in any part of the world will know that these things take some time, so consider factoring in a global search for land and seeking investor funds too! This is a new project and those that have […]

Islandians on Tour!

Where does an Islandian go on holiday? Our investors are a well-travelled bunch. Some have travelled to over 100 countries and there are a fair few travel geeks amongst us. Our investors have previously met up in a number of locations around the world, but ever keen to get off the beaten track, our next […]

Moving forward with Buying An Island

Working towards buying an island has been quite a ride. Many have tried and failed and we are almost there. When we embarked on this project we had some pretty ambitious targets. We would all love to be sitting on our own island right now of course, but good things come to those who wait. […]

What does it mean to be an Islandian?

As a new nation, club, or concept with less than 200 members, we are still trying to decide what it is to be Islandian. All investors, directors, and shareholders are Islandian. There are currently 198 of us. We are an extremely diverse group from dozens of different countries, so whilst a lot of things make […]

Ask Us Anything!

We’ve had lots of interest in our project recently and we are really glad that lots more people are getting to hear about us. We love answering your questions as it gives us an opportunity to tell everyone about our aims and objectives, which to summarise are to buy an island! We’re an international community […]

Buying an island regardless – and what that means in practical terms

Since the very beginning, when we first started to discuss the prospect of crowdfunding buying an island,to when we first started to actively collect money, it was decided that as soon as we hit 50 paid up members (deposit paid), we would be “buying regardless”. This is something that has been enshrined during our chats […]

Building A Micro-Nation

Principality Of Islandia’s National Foundation Kickstarter Imminent

Who’s running Let’s Buy An Island?

Whilst the main part of the Lets Buy An Island project is to crowdsource a group of people to buy an island, there are to secondary factors of equal weight. They are that the whole thing from start to finish should be democratic, and to keep this democratic ideal, we will be running it as […]

What is this site all about?

Having just checked our site statistics for Let’s Buy An Island I was really surprised to see how many people are currently ending up on our threadbare coming soon page, be it via Facebook, Twitter, or most excitingly search engines such as Google. I am sure most of you also notice the blank blog section […]