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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