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Nordic Cross Flag [6] Nova Scotia: 1929–present Saint Andrew's Cross [16] Ontario: 1965–present Crosses of St. George, St. Andrew and St. Patrick: Orenburg Oblast: 1996–present Orthodox Cross [17] Orkney: 2007–present Nordic Cross Flag: Pärnu: 1934–present Nordic Cross Flag [18] Piedmont: 1995–present Christian cross: Portugal 1911 ...
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.
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.
Many Christian denominations have their own denominational flag and display it alongside the ecumenical Christian Flag or independent from it. [5]Catholic Churches in communion with the Holy See often display the Vatican flag along with their respective national flag, typically on opposite sides of the sanctuary, near the front door, or hoisted on flagstaffs outside.
8.1 British Overseas Territories. 8.1.1 Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. ... Flag of the Administrator of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
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]
Flag of the British Virgin Islands; Flag of the Cayman Islands; Flag of the Cook Islands; Flag of the Falkland Islands; Flag of the United Kingdom; Flat tax; Gender Recognition Act 2004; Grand Union Flag; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; Law enforcement in the United Kingdom; Law officers of the Crown; List of Commonwealth visits made ...
Flag of Antarctica; B. Flag of the British Antarctic Territory; F. Flag of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands; T. Flag of the Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina