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(2:3)
Mark Sensen, 14 December 2003
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Ratio: 2:3. Adopted: 2 July 1984.
Mark Sensen
A blue flag with a yellow stripe (about the width of the white
stripe in the Danish flag), located below
the center line, and containing two 5 pointed white stars in
upper hoist, the upper one smaller and to the left of the lower
one.
William M. Grimes-Wyatt, 8 April 1996
From <www.curacao-tourism.com> (defunct):
"Curaçao’s flag portrays the blue sea and sky,
bisected by the yellow sun. The two stars represent Curaçao and
its uninhabited sister island Klein Curaçao; their five points
symbolize the five continents from which the varied local
population originates".
Erki Kurrikoff, 5 Febuary 2002
According to Album 2000 [pay00]
- Curaçao - A blue flag of proportions 2:3 with a yellow stripe
in the lower part, propotions 5:1:2. At the upper hoist two white
stars. The diameter of the imaginary circle circumscribing the
first star equal to one sixth of the flag height, the centre
located at an imaginary vertical line one sixth of the flag
height from the hoist and an imaginary horizontal line one sixth
of the flag height from the top of the flag. The diameter of the
imaginary circle circumscribing the second star equal to two
nineth of the flag height, the centre located at an imaginary
vertical line one third of the flag height from the hoist and an
imaginary horizontal line one third of the flag height from the
top of the flag. The blue is Pantone 280, the yellow is Pantone
102.
Mark Sensen, 14 December 2003
by Jarig Bakker, 31 January 2003
From "Vlaggenalbum" of Gouda's Roen (c. 1950) - The
flag for Curaçao is the Dutch flag with a
Coat of Arms in the center (apparently not the Coat of Arms of
that island); I haven't seen it in any flagbook, so this seems to
be highly doubtful. The ship is of the Netherlands
West India Company, see <www.ngw.nl>.
Jarig Bakker, 31 January 2003
Both Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles used the Coat of Arms of the "Geoctrooiëerde Westindische Compagnie" (Dutch West India Company), that is a three-master on a way sea