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Namibian Local flags

Walvis Bay

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Walvis Bay CoA

image from this website, reported by Jarig Bakker, 23 May 2001

I was looking for a flag of the Namibian town of Walvisbaai / Walvis Bay. This former South African town and seaport (part of Namibia since 1995), has no other flag flying at the municipality than the Namibian national flag. (There are other symbols related to Walvisbaai as the logo of the Port, or the logo of the Economic Exclusive Zone, but these are commercial).
Perhaps, there is no flag of Walvisbaai?
You can find the name of the town written in two different ways: English: Walvis Bay - Afrikaans: Walvisbaai
The most common form is in English. But probably it's only an hybrid, an incorrect way because the name in English should be Whale Bay (never used), as "walvis" is Dutch and not English.
Santiago Tazon, 23 May 2001

Walvis Bay does not fly a distinctive municipal flag. English is now the official language of Namibia and hence Walvisbaai is no longer used (officially anyway!).
Walvis Bay is the principle port of Namibia located on the Atlantic Coast. Until March 1994 the town was part of South Africa and administered as part of the former Cape Province of South Africa. Municipal arms were originally granted by the then Administrator of South West Africa on 1 December 1964 and later registered with the South African Bureau of Heraldry on 30 October 1967. The arms are described as:
ARMS: Or, on a fess wavy Azure a barrulet way Argent, in chief a whale and in base a pelican, both proper
CREST: An anchor cabled erect, Sable
WREATH AND MANTLING: Or and Azure
SUPPORTERS: Two flamingos proper
MOTTO: IN UTRUMQUE PARATUS (Prepared for Either).
Bruce Berry, 24 May 2001

I have just read an article on Walvis Bay in Namibia, located