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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.
near the Dumont d'Urville Station, Terre Adélie, Antarctica 1946 Aircraft: 3 Antarctica PBM Mariner crash [18] Thurston Island, Antarctica 1958 Aircraft: 3 Marguerite Bay plane crash [19] Marguerite Bay, Antarctica 4 survivors 1965 Tractor: 3 Tractor falls into crevasse [20] Milorgknausane nunataks, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica 1979 Aircraft: 3
According to the flag's promoters, it signifies: "Horizontal stripes of navy and white represent the long days and nights at Antarctica's extreme latitude. In the center, a lone white peak erupts from a field of snow and ice, echoing those of the bergs, mountains, and pressure ridges that define the Antarctic horizon.
Members of Antarctic expeditions who have met their deaths while in the service of such expeditions, or as an immediate consequence thereof. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Explorers of Antarctica .
Flags of the Marshal Foch victory-harmony banner June 8, 1919. This is a collection of lists of flags, including the flags of states or territories, groups or movements and individual people. There are also lists of historical flags and military flag galleries. Many of the flag images are on Wikimedia Commons.
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Visited Antarctica during the final cruise of the Aurora, 1913–14. [20] Leslie Blake: 21 Cartographer and geologist Visited Antarctica during the final cruise of the Aurora, 1913–14. [21] Died on 3 October 1918 while on active service with the Australian Field Artillery in France. [22] Harold Hamilton: 26 Biologist