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United States: Blue variant of the flag of the USAP: plain blue field charged with the logo of the United States Antarctic Program. Captain Arturo Prat: Chile: Plain white field charged with the coat of arms of the base. Gabriel de Castilla: Spain: The flag of Spain with the emblem of the base in the center.
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.
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]
British citizenship and BOTC would also extend to the first generation born overseas. Since Emilio Palma was born in the Antarctic territories claimed by the UK prior to 1983, he automatically had British nationality at birth. Since his parents were both Argentine citizens and he was born at an Argentine base, he was automatically granted ...
The flag that is illustrated in Newsletter No. 9 shows the arms in full, without a white disc. The flag is a blue ensign, with the Union Flag in the canton, defaced with the coat-of-arms. The flag flies over the main government settlements on South Georgia Island, and the scientific bases of the British Antarctic Survey.
On April 17, 1707, Queen Anne issued a proclamation regarding the Union Flag's use, which was similar to the earlier version but had slight changes in the fimbriation width. The United Empire Loyalists brought this flag to British North America when they left the United States. In present-day Canada, the flag continues to be used as symbol of ...
The 20th anniversary of 9/11 is approaching, and shipping crates filled with giant American flags are already en route to stadiums across the country. Here’s how the giant flag tradition came to be.
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