Antarctica — flag proposals

Last modified: 2005-07-23 by antonio martins
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• Whitney Smith’s proposal
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• Dave Hamilton’s proposal

• Antartica

Whitney Smith’s proposal

History and meaning

At the 1978 annual meeting of the North American Vexillological Association (NAVA), Whitney Smith gave a talk entitled “Flags of Antarctica”. In it he proposed his design for Antarctica: an orange flag with two hands under a sort of bowl.
John Andrew Lowe, 29 Nov 1995.

Having asked Whitney Smith just about this flag years ago, here’s, in a nutshell, the guidelines for his design:

• Orange colour: good visibility in the extreme Antarctic climate. And it does not resemble the national flag of any country active on that continent.
• Emblem: the "A" is self-evident. The hands hold a segment of a disk representing Earth, in othe