Ascension Island (Dependency of Saint Helena)

Last modified: 2005-05-28 by Željko heimer
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by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 11 September 2000

• New flag awaited?
• Ascension Island
• University of Walles, Swansea errornously ascribed to Ascension Island

See also:

• Clickable map of Saint Helena and Dependencies
• Saint Helena and Dependencies
• United Kingdom
• United Kingdom: Colonial Flags

New flag awaited?

Tristan da Cuhna got a flag in 2002, so that only leaves Ascension Island to get a flag. They have just decided to become self-governing, like Tristan, so I suspect they will be applying for a Grant of Arms quite soon. Then we'll have to get on with designing the new flag. Given that they have an airport hopefully it won't be quite as long as process as Tristan's was.

Graham Bartram, 20 October 2002

I am informed (by the chap doing the work) that designs (for a coat of arms) are at present being prepared for consideration by the Ascension Island authorities (following suggestions by them), so the process has begun.

Christopher Southworth, 9 April 2005

Ascension Island

Ascension Island is a small speck of land in the middle of the South Atlantic, and has been a British possession since the Napoleonic Wars and immediately afterwards, when it was a support base for preventing any rescue attempts to liberate Napoleon from St Helena. It has functioned as a dependency of that island for much of its histo