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The British Arctic Territories were a region of British North America, composed of islands to the north of continental North America. They are now known as the Arctic Archipelago . The British claim to the area was based on the discoveries of Martin Frobisher (1535–1594) in the 16th century.
The United Kingdom has had a continuous presence in the far South Atlantic since 1833 when it reasserted sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.In 1908, the UK extended its territorial claim by declaring sovereignty over "South Georgia, the South Orkneys, the South Shetlands, the Sandwich Islands, and Graham's Land, situated in the South Atlantic Ocean and on the Antarctic continent to the ...
The flag of the British Antarctic Territory was granted on 21 April 1998. [1] It features the coat of arms granted on 1 August 1963, a year after the British Antarctic Territory, a British Overseas Territory, was created. Previously, the Territory was a part of the Falkland Islands Dependencies and used the same flag. [2]
8.1 British Overseas Territories. 8.1.1 Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. 8.2 Crown Dependencies. 9 United States. ... Flag of the British Indian Ocean ...
Original flag flown by the 'Discovery', stored at the Royal Museums Greenwich.. In 1929, members of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition on RRS Discovery used white cotton sheeting to improvise a courtesy ensign (a flag used as a token of respect by vessels while in foreign waters) for a continent without a flag of its own.
Flag Day isn't a federal holiday, but it has been celebrated for over a century. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed June 14 as a day of national observance in 1916, according to the U.S. General ...
Flag of the British Antarctic Territory; B. Flag of Bermuda; C. Flag of the Cayman Islands; F. Flag of the Falkland Islands; G. Flag of Gibraltar; H. Flag of Hong ...
He erected the French flag and took possession of the land for France on 21 January 1840 at 17:30. [12] The British eventually decided to recognize this claim, and the border between Adélie Land and the Australian Antarctic Territory was fixed definitively in 1938. [13]