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No mention of the freshwater source... line from the shore? Shipped in?
Amazing and only £3 million!? Out of my budget but that's probably about the cost of a normal house in London.

Things like this fort make me convinced that automated electric drone taxis could open up a lot of living possibilities. Get one of those and you could turn it into an amazing Airbnb or alternatively a community.

The idea of owning it is probably more appealing than owning it.
That is a coding retreat done properly. Very nice indeed
I grew up in that area and went to school with a member of the family that owned Thorne Island at the time.

There are times of the year that access is not possible at all due to weather which does limit the usefulness of the location.

The Angle lifeboat isn’t far away in an emergency though, so that’s helpful.

There are other Victorian fort locations in that area in private hands. A different school friend owned more than one of these for a while. Maintenance costs are outrageous!

Looks like this island doesn't have a real beach or even easy access to the sea for a swim or watersports.

I feel like this heavily defeats the point of owning your own island. Every other private island I've seen on Wikipedia looks like some kind of paradisiac resort. With beaches, greenery, confy gazebos etc..

What I find impressive is that he somehow managed to renovate this property for only $2.7M?! Including 350 helicopter trips over two days!
> The fort’s highlights include ... a sea-view office.
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> The fort, which is only accessible by sea or air

Being an island, I sort of expected that.

It’s going to be a cold hellhole for half the year
zombie proof as TIL they generally aren't good swimmers. But in a real end of world sitch I think it's from one of those nearby fjordy bits no?
Clearly, it needs a secret tunnel to the mainland, with really good pumps and backup power.
Why does the article say it's 3 nautical miles off the coast? If you just zoom out a bit on google maps, I measure the mainland to be less than 1000 ft. away.
If anyone wonders about motivation for this sort of thing, Adam Nicholson's Sea Room might be worth a look. Nicholson was the owner of the Shiants, three small islands off the Hebrides.

Each of the Shiants are a bit larger and have more features than this fort on a rock though. And Nicholson inherited them and passed them on to his son.

"Tech entrepreneur Mike Conner said the undertaking had been part of a "mid-life crisis.""

This made me laugh. Props, there are far less productive things he could have done.