Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #009edb
- #ffffff
Other flags with white or blue or all of white and blue at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- a single-coloured ground
The fly edge and the foot are one colour, and the same one, whatever else is drawn on top of it.
What we know about it
Antarctica is governed as a condominium, so there is no institution that can adopt an official flag: all flags for it are used unofficially, this one included. Graham Bartram, the chief vexillologist of the Flag Institute, designed it in 1996 for a 3D Atlas program, taking the flag of the United Nations as his model and choosing, for neutrality, a plain white map of the continent against blue; the emblem of the Antarctic Treaty System was its inspiration.
Drafted from Flag of Antarctica on Wikipedia, as it read on 2026-08-26, and checked back against it: every date, name and number above appears in the sentences it was written from. Nobody here wrote it by hand.
Nearest in the world
Every flag is compared with every other one, off the pictures themselves. Two copies of one picture score 0; these are the closest to this one. How that is measured.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Antarctica is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
Credit Tobias Jakobs
From Proposed flag of Antarctica (Graham Bartram).svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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