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The Flag of Tristan da Cunha
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The Flag of Tristan da Cunha

The Flag of Tristan da Cunha was adopted on October 20, in a proclamation made by the Governor of Saint Helena under a Royal Warrant granted by Queen Elizabeth II. Prior to this, as a dependancy of Saint Helena, Tristan du Cunha used the Flag of Saint Helena for offical purposes. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Tristan da Cunha is a group of remote islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and also the name of its main island. ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... In the United Kingdom, a Royal Warrant is a grant made by senior members of the British Royal Family to companies or tradespeople who supply goods and services to individuals in the family. ... Elizabeth II in an official portrait as Queen of Canada (on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee in 2002, wearing the Sovereigns badges of the Order of Canada and the Order of Military Merit) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary) (born 21 April 1926), styled HM The... Flag ratio: 1:2 The flag of Saint Helena was adopted on October 4, 1984. ...


The flag is a blue ensign design, defaced with the Island's coat of arms- a Tristan longboat above a Naval Crown, with a central shield decorated with four yellow-nosed Albatrosses and flanked by two Tristan da Cunha Spiny Lobster. The modern Blue Ensign of the United Kingdom The British Blue Ensign (1707–1801) English Blue Ensign as it appeared in the seventeenth century. ... Genera Diomedea Thalassarche Phoebastria Phoebetria The albatrosses are seabirds in the family Diomedeidae, which is closely allied to the procellarids, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). ...



 
List of flags of the British overseas territories and crown dependencies
Overseas territories: Flag of Anguilla | Flag of Bermuda | Flag of the British Antarctic Territory | Flag of the British Indian Ocean Territory | Flag of the British Virgin Islands | Flag of the Cayman Islands | Flag of the Falkland Islands | Flag of Gibraltar | Flag of Montserrat | Flag of the Pitcairn Islands | Flag of Saint Helena | Flag of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | Flag of Tristan da Cunha | Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands
Crown dependencies: Flag of Guernsey | Flag of Jersey | Flag of the Isle of Man


 
 

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