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by Jaume Ollé, 12 September 1998
This flag was in use 1961-c.1970. In 1970-1976 the badge was changed.
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by Michael Smuda, 14 September 1998
Barraclough and Crampton 1981 also mentions concerning the British Indian Ocean Territory that it was formed in 1965 and that the Blue Ensign with the Seychelles badge was used in this territory.
Santiago Dotor, 13 April, 2000
From the Toronto Globe and Mail (transcribed from a newspaper clipping; some parts missing):
"Torontonian Designs Flag for Seychelles"
A new flag badge for the Seychelles Islands has been designed by Mrs. Alec
McEwen of Toronto. A few days ago she received word from London that the design
had been approved by the Queen and that the Admiralty has agreed to its use in
the fly of the blue ensign.
A former commercial artist entered a poster contest and the governor was
delighted with her sketch. So one of the first of new Seychelles Islands flags
will come to another British colony halfway around the world, to its designer.
Colorful both in design and content, it closely resembles the ...
...its pale yellow oval border inset with green fish on a blue background. It
still carries the giant land tortoise, a gentle, lumbering creature centuries
older than people in the islands; and a brown and green coco-de-mer tree from
which the largest fruit in the world, big double coconuts, are harvested. The
fruit, which Mrs. McEwen des