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Mosquito Coast (Nicaragua)

Last modified: 2003-09-06 by dov gutterman
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Zeljko asked: In the zone there existed another two British colonies, the Protected Kingdom of the Mosquitos (today Miskitos), and the colony of Bay Islands (today a Honduran province). Did there exist flags for the two territories?.

Both were given up before the 1864 Order-in-Council that permitted colonies to have ensigns with flag badges - Mosquito Coast in 1860 to Nicaragua and the Bay Islands in 1859 to Honduras. I wasn't aware that the Mosquito Coast was constituted as a kingdom within the British protectorate though, so it may well have had a flag.
Roy Stilling, 26 July 1996

Here are the flags.
The first version was adopted 1834.  The second was adopted in 1860 when the Nicaraguan flag replaced the Union Jack in the canton.
The 1986 Constitution provides for the autonomy of the two Moskito Coast provinces. Source: William Crampton's "The World of Flags".
Mark Sensen
, 28 July 1996

This is one of a number of inconsistent British ensigns with an 1801 Union canton that are shown in 19th century flag books/sheets.
Blue and white stripes.
3b-3w : Mosquito Coast  - Unidentified source 1824
5b-5w : ditto  1852 - Unidentified source
6b-6w : ditto  1853-81   - ditto
Mosquito Coast covered parts of modern Nicaragua and Honduras.  Possibly had some connection with Bay Islands a dependency of Jamaica ceded to Republic of Honduras in 1859.
David Prothero, 30 January 2001

Below there are a couple of historical flags of the Mosquito Coast, used in the 19th c