Historical Flags (Vanuatu)

Anglo-French Condominium of New Hebrides / Nouvelles-Hébrides

Last modified: 2005-07-09 by santiago dotor
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• Anglo-French Commission 1889-1906
• British Administration 1906-1980
• British Resident Commissioner 1906-1980
• Free French Administration 1940-1945
• Flag at the 1963 South Pacific Games
• Flag at the 1966 South Pacific Games

See also:

• Western Pacific High Commissioner 1877-1976
• Colonies of the United Kingdom
• French Colonial Flags

by Ivan Sache

Vertically white-red; in the center, a blue rectangle with five white stars in a pentagonal arrangement. I have not been able to find any trace of that Commission, but the Anglo-French Condominium on the archipelago was established in 1906, so the Commission might have been a bipartite authority which solved the problem of the attribution of the archipelago (which was the last "non-attributed" oceanian territory.). Source: Flags of Paradise 1996 chart.

Ivan Sache, 19 July 1999

1906-1953 Blue Ensign (Tudor Crown)
by Santiago Dotor and António Martins

1953-1980 Blue Ensign (St. Edward's Crown)
by Santiago Dotor and António Martins

The flag-badge for the British side of the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) administration during the Anglo-French condominium was a white disc bearing a royal crown with the words "NEW" (above) and "HEBRIDES" (below) curved around it in black block capitals. The British Solomon Islands had a similar badge, so it looks like the imagination of Whitehall's badge designers had run out by the time they got round to the Pacific. I presume that the French side of the New Hebrides government did not use such a badge.

Roy Stilling, 5 October 1996

I don't know about the French flag during the condominium (probably something straight-forward and logical l