Why would a country need an island that is unpopulated with no plans to develop it?

Why would a country need an island that is unpopulated with no plans to develop it?

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Military base if needed.

Usually for increasing your sea borders.

And hopefully natural resources.

Better to have it, and not need it, than need it, and not have it.

Really its quite stupid how a country can claim jurisdiction over places where nobody lives, or really just claim it over villages and towns who never asked for it

Hey guys I found this rock in the sea while I was up north.

Who does it belong to?

If it needed to be inhabited they'd just pay people to live there.

Increasing the size of your territorial wates and your Exclusive Economic Zone

humans aren't the only species on earth

Mine