In 1831, a volcano produced a brand-new island in the Mediterranean.
Britain, France, Spain, and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies promptly began claiming it.
Before diplomacy could mature into gunfire, the island sank beneath the sea.
An island so opposed to being owned that it simply left.
The most elegant border dispute ever settled by geology.
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