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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.
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.
6.1 Constituent countries. 6.2 ... This overview contains the flags of dependent ... Flag of the Administrator of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Flags of Antarctica (4 P) Flags of Asia (27 C, 29 P) E. Flags of Europe (6 P) N. Flags of North America (10 C, 3 P) O. Flags of Oceania (1 C, 2 P) S. Flags of South ...
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
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