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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.
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 picture represents the abundance of sea food. [37] Peleliu: The flag features the native bird belochel. The blue represents the ocean and the five stars represent the five hamlets of Peleliu. [38] Sonsorol: The blue background represents the Pacific Ocean and the four stars represent the four islands that make up Sonsorol.
This is a list of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands. Antarctic islands are, in the strict sense, the islands around mainland Antarctica, situated on the Antarctic Plate, and south of the Antarctic Convergence. According to the terms of the Antarctic Treaty, claims to sovereignty over lands south of 60° S are not asserted. [1]
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World map of the five-ocean model with approximate boundaries. This list of countries which border two or more oceans includes both sovereign states and dependencies, provided the same contiguous territory borders on more than one of the five named oceans, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. [1]
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List of countries and dependencies by area; List of countries and territories by number of land borders; List of countries by imports; List of countries by length of coastline; List of countries by past and projected GDP (nominal) List of countries that border only one other country; List of flags by color; List of flags by color combination ...