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by Antonio Martins, 12 July 2004
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Ilulissat seems to have also a white flag charged with the
Coat of Arms. Photo of the city hall at <www.ilulissat.gl>
show a white flag hoisted even thou it is too small for final
conclussion.
Dov Gutterman, 10 July 2004
I have been several times in Ilulissat but never seen the arms
on a flag.. You see mainly the Greenlandic flag everywhere, like
in other villages. The use of the arms, however, is widespread,
on stationary, souvenirs, stickers, official buildings etc.
Ralf, 10 July 2004
Ralf's website, at <www.ngw.nl>,
quotes [ach82] thus:
" The arms were granted in 1969. The arms are canting, the
name of the town means the icebergs. The town lies close to the
most productive Greenlandic glacier, producing in the summer
15.000.000 cubic metres of ice per day (!). The town is thus
famous for the gigantic icebergs floating in the fjord. The town
asked a Danish artist to make arms for the municipality with
icebergs and snow crystals. He came up with around 30 different
designs, of which the present arms were chosen.
Antonio Martins, 12 July 2004
