The Port Hamilton Affair saw the English navy seize the Nam How Islands and the harbour between them. Intended to prevent increasing Russian... Læs mere
This book gives a comprehensive survey of 'islandness' and its defining features. It considers how islands' small scale, isolation and often lack of resources have affected them in the present day and in the past.
In April 1885 the British navy seized the small archipelago of Port Hamilton (now Geomundo) off Korea, an incident dubbed the Port Hamilton Affair. This book is the first full-length study of the incident.