On the Danish flag, the cross design, which represents Christianity, was subsequently adopted by the other Nordic countries ; Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Åland Islands and the Faroe Islands, as well as the Scottish archipelagos of Shetland and Orkney.

This flag, called the Dannebrog, inspired the cross design of the other Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and regional Scandinavian flags for the Faroe Islands, Åland, Scania and Bornholm, as well as flags for the non-Scandinavian Shetland and Orkney.

White symbolises the creators of the flag, the foam of the sea and the pure, radiant sky of the Faroe Islands, while the old färöerischen blue and red colours are reminiscent of other Scandinavian and Nordic flags ; representing the Faroe Islands ' bonds with other Nordic countries.

In the music video for singer Björk's song Declare Independence, the flag of the Faroe Islands ( as well as that of Greenland ) are featured on the uniforms of those who appear in the video.

Not until the verification of the home rule act in 1948 was Merkið recognized as the official flag of the Faroe Islands.

The Faroe Islands are allowed to compete at the Paralympics under its own flag.

From left to right respectively ; the flag of Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. A selection of Nordic flags used in Northern Europe: Iceland, Faroe Islands, Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Åland Islands, Finland.

One example of this is the flag of the Faroe Islands, which separates a red cross from a white field with blue fimbriation.

some foreign ships register in the Cayman Islands as a flag of convenience ; includes ships from 11 countries among which are: Greece 15, US 5, UK 5, Cyprus 2, Denmark 2, Norway 3 ( 2002 est.

includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Argentina 9, Australia 2, Austria 15, Belgium 9, Brazil 5, Canada 4, Cayman Islands 1, Chile 7, China 39, Croatia 11, Denmark 4, Ecuador 1, Estonia 1, Germany 437, Greece 154, Hong Kong 69, India 5, Indonesia 1, Israel 1, Italy 5, Japan 90, Latvia 20, Man, Isle of 5, Monaco 56, Netherlands 12, New Zealand 1, Nigeria 1, Norway 103, Pakistan 1, Portugal 5, Russia 66, Saudi Arabia 21, Singapore 20, Slovenia 1, South Africa 1, South Korea 10, Spain 2, Sweden 9, Switzerland 17, Taiwan 29, Turkey 3, Ukraine 4, United Arab Emirates 12, United Kingdom 39, United States 113, Uruguay 3, Vietnam 1 ( 2002 est.

They, together with the cluster of the Visayan Islands that separate them, represent the three principal regions of the archipelago that are identified by the three stars on the Philippine flag.

The Territory considered holding a plebiscite as to whether the British and U. S. Virgin Islands should merge under the U. S. flag, but ( although there was no opposition from Westminster ) it is unlikely that the U. S. State Department would have acquiesced to taking over responsibility for the impoverished Territory, and in the event no plebiscite was ever held.

In recent years, the Marshall Islands has begun to offer ship registrations under the Marshall Islands flag.

Students at the Majuro Cooperative School raise the Republic of Marshall Islands flag at a flag raising ceremony during a Pacific Partnership 2009 community service project

The flag of Kiribati: the upper half is red with a gold frigatebird ( Fregata minor, in Gilbertese: te eitei ) flying over a gold rising sun ( otintaai ), and the lower half is blue with three horizontal wavy white stripes to represent the ocean and the 3 groups ( Gilbert, Phoenix and Line Islands ).

Céspedes would have been inspired by the Chilean flag as a way of honoring the efforts of Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna on behalf of Chile to achieve independence of Cuba after the Spanish defeat in the Chincha Islands War.

The current flag of Tuvalu was instated when the country became independent in 1978, after the separation from the Gilbert Islands in 1976.

To this day, many inhabitants of the Magdalen Islands ( Madelinots ) fly the Acadian flag and think of themselves as both Acadians and Québécois.

The flag of the Solomon Islands features a quincunx of stars.

The flag of the Solomon Islands features this pattern, with its five stars representing the five main island groups in the Solomon Islands.

At the conclusion of the Flagstaff War the Hokianga and the Bay of Islands region was nominally under British influence, the fact that the Government's flag was not re-erected was symbolically very significant.

Mr. Peter Pess and Mr. James Beekman were unsuccessful in transitioning Aero Virgin Islands back to be the flag carrier of the Caribbean.

On 3 November 1884, under the auspices of the Deutsche Neuguinea-Compagnie ( New Guinea Company ), the German flag was flown over Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, the Bismarck Archipelago and the German Solomon Islands.

* 1975 – Canary Islands sailors disembark in the Savages and there they waved a Spanish flag, but the administration did not support them.

Cayman Airways is the national flag carrier of the Cayman Islands.

It is also the only country to have humans depicted as a major design element on its national flag, although the flag of Malta contains an image of Saint George on the badge of the George Cross, and the flags of British dependencies Montserrat and the Virgin Islands also depict humans.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

In spite of the fact that the state legislature voted us neutral, John Hunt Morgan is openly flying the Confederate flag over his woolen factory ''!!

Then she catapults into `` everything and everybody '', putting particular violence on `` everybody '', indicating to the linguist that this is a spot to flag -- that is, it is not congruent to the patient's general style of speech up to this point.

* 1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.

The anarcho-capitalist flag is also widely used by voluntaryists, whose philosophy is very similar.

* 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.

* 1898 – The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.

* 1942 – World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is installed atop the Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountain range.

The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.

Betsy Ross ( January 1, 1752 – January 30, 1836 ) is widely credited with making the first American flag.

* 1854 – The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.

The ANC flag is composed of three stripes – black, green and gold.

The flag is now in the Baltimore Orioles museum.

If the mutated sequence is present in the patient's genome, the probe will bind to it and flag the mutation.

alt = Four ships flying the British flag advance in the foreground towards an anchored battle line in which the only clear detail is a huge burning ship.

Hanging on the western wall is Queen Victoria's burial flag, given to the college soon after her death.

Under the flag is the high table where the professors and college administration lunch.

This flag is not used all that often if at all.

What is normally seen is the flag with green on both ends with a golden circle that reads " Cape Breton Island, Canada " with the island in the middle and a green ' X ' behind in the background.

The most usual is the system of the Confederação Brasileira de Capoeira ( Brazilian Capoeira Confederation ), which adopts ropes using the colors of the Brazilian flag, green, yellow, blue and white.