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The flag consists of a blue field with the French flag with white fimbriation on the canton. The charge consists of 5 stars (for the five regions of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories) and the letters "TAAF" (from the French name of the territory, Terres australes et antarctiques françaises) forming a monogram in the shape of anchor.
Pages in category "Flags of Antarctica" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Flag of the Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina
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.
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English: The symbols have the following meaning: "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.
Flags of Antarctica (4 P) ... Flags of South America (9 C, 2 P) This page was last edited on 25 January 2019, at 05:40 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
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This image from the Xrmap flag collection (source: flags-2.6-src.tar.bz2). The README file in that collection says of the SVG flags "We release them in the public domain". Public domain Public domain false false