The price: 450,000 euros. The goal: To build an Israeli colony on it. Officially, the island is known as Petäjäsaari, but already upon disembarking from the plane in the town of Kuopio, after a half hour flight from Helsinki, Finnish media report on “The Israeli Island,”
Four young Israeli entrepreneurs bought it. They seem to want to create an eco-friendly (i.e., primitive) quiet residential village. No, not really a substitute for seasteading.
Maybe the advantage of seasteading is that you can move and thus it is easier to make the best deal for national defense treaties.
(Is it pure coincidence that this project is undertaken by Israelis? These are perhaps the first people for whom there exists an International defense system- for good reason, but still.)