REM Island

REM Island is a platform built in the Republic of Ireland and towed off the Dutch coast in 1964 as the pirate broadcasting home of Radio and TV Noordzee.

Radio and TV Noordzee was founded in 1963 with land-based offices and broadcast from the sea.

However, on 12 December 1964, the government passed the REM law, which split the North Sea into continental sections.

The sea bed under REM Island, to which the structure was attached, was therefore declared Dutch territory.

[citation needed] A year after the raid, Radio Noordzee resumed transmissions legally under the name TROS.

Photograph of REM Island
Photograph of REM Island, taken 16 December 1964