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Nobody ever fought over Rockall.

As an uninhabitable island with rival territorial claims from Denmark and Ireland mainly because the fishing rights are potentially worth something, it's a better comparison point than an island group which has been continuously occupied for nearly 200 years...

It's an islet not an island, which under UNCLOS is a really important distinction. Islands get an EEZ around them, islets don't. Rockall gets 12 nautical miles of territorial waters around it, but no EEZ.

The distinction between islets and islands is the basis of what China is up to with the artificial islands it is constructing. UNCLOS is a really interesting thing to get stuck into if you are a legally inclined geek.

The UK and Iceland did tussle over fishing rights in the North Atlantic - not an outright shooting war, but there were warships posted to protect UK trawlers and collisions between ships:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars

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