The Vladislaus V Penal Battalion

In the early 19th century, a group of Austro-Hungairan (then Austrian and Hungarian) explorers found a large island west of the African coast that they named Nova Hungaria. The few settlements have, however, soon been abandoned and the scientists and adventurers never stayed long enough to find any natural resources or inhabitants. When, after the union of 1867, a group of military men on board the SMS Archangelus landed on the north-eastern shore of Nova Hungaria, on the White Island, it was already too late - an independent and mostly roguish Russian group had already settled in some ten years before.