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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]
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The United Kingdom has had a continuous presence in the far South Atlantic since 1833 when it reasserted sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.In 1908, the UK extended its territorial claim by declaring sovereignty over "South Georgia, the South Orkneys, the South Shetlands, the Sandwich Islands, and Graham's Land, situated in the South Atlantic Ocean and on the Antarctic continent to the ...
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.
Flag of the British Antarctic Territory: Date: 21 April 2007: Source: Own work: Author: vector version Masur based on File:Coat of arms of the British Antarctic Territory.svg and File:Flag of a British Governor (modern).svg by Greentubing: Permission (Reusing this file)
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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.
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