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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.
The flag of Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit erfalasuat, Danish: Grønlands flag) was designed by Greenland native Thue Christiansen. [2] It features two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red (bottom) with a counter-changed red-and-white disk slightly to the hoist side of centre.
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.
Map of Greenland. Greenland is the world's largest non-continental island [85] and the third largest area in North America after Canada and the United States. [86] It is between latitudes 59° and 83°N, and longitudes 11° and 74°W.
Flag of Australia: 1867 –1869: Flag of the Kingdom of Bau: 1893 –1901: Flag of the Cook Islands Federation: 1973 –1979: Flag of the Cook Islands: 1865 –1867: Flag of the Confederacy of Independent Kingdoms of Fiji: 1871 –1874: Flag of the Kingdom of Fiji: 1877 –1883: Flag of the Colony of Fiji: 1883 –1903: Flag of the Colony of ...
Flag of Greenland. Finland. Flag of Åland. France. Overseas collectivities and territory ... Gallery of sovereign state flags; List of country subdivision flags;
Retreat of the Helheim Glacier, Greenland Map of Greenland's rate of change in ice sheet height Map of Greenland bedrock. Greenland's climate is a tundra climate on and near the coasts and an ice cap climate in inland areas. It typically has short, cool summers and long, moderately cold winters.
A speculative representation of Antarctica labelled as ' Terra Australis Incognita ' on Jan Janssonius's Zeekaart van het Zuidpoolgebied (1657), Het Scheepvaartmuseum The name given to the continent originates from the word antarctic, which comes from Middle French antartique or antarctique ('opposite to the Arctic') and, in turn, the Latin antarcticus ('opposite to the north').