Fort Family

The Fort Family is a term for a micronations that are on forts man made platforms. There is currently only 5 current fort family micronations known, as these micronations claim platforms only and no other land or other territory. There is 2 branches to this family known as the Sea Fort Family and the land fort family.

The Sea Fort Family branch is for forts built on or above big bodies of water, and not on land and can only be accessed by a boat or helicopter, or by swimming if is on water. The Land Fort Family branch are forts built on land as their name states, which it is currently unknown how many land fort micronations there are.

Term history
The term was originally created simply for what is now the sea branch of the fort family, the term was made with the creation of Shiveryia. The term was coined on 11 June 2023 by Elizabeth Snowie Langley when she made the term, which the term remained in use for only sea forts until 17 July 2023 when the family was split into two branches to account for land forts.