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Solomon Islands

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by Zeljko Heimer
Flag adopted 18th November 1977, coat-of-arms adopted 7th July 1978

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Description

I made the flag image comparing the shades and star positions in several sources, among them Shipmate's Flagchart, Album des Pavillons 1990 and Smith 1982. They all agree that the shade of green is a rather dark one. Blue is problem of its own, so I left one that I believe is acceptable until we get better information. Yellow is odd, some sources show it as regular yellow (Y), in other sources as dark yellow (Y+). I left the darker one as it seems to me that it gives better colour balance. I estimate that the diagonal stripe's width is 1/10th of the hoist. This flag is used as civil, state and war flag on land.

Zeljko Heimer, 20 May 2000

From Devereux 1998:

The result of official discussion and a design competition, the flag of the Solomons Islands was created