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The flag is sometimes described as a defaced Blue Ensign. A number of unofficial flags existed in the early days of New South Wales. Following the adoption by the British Parliament of the Colonial Naval Defence Act in 1865, each colony was required to display the British Blue Ensign with a unique, easily distinguished colonial badge.
The current state flag of New South Wales was officially adopted in 1876. The flag is based on the defaced British Blue Ensign with the state badge located in the fly.The badge, based on the coat of arms, is a white disc with the cross of St George, a golden lion passant guardant in the centre of the cross and an eight-pointed gold star on each arm of the cross.
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The New South Wales state flag was created as a colonial flag - a British Blue Ensign with the badge of the colony added to the blue field. There is no official explanation for the design of New South Wales's badge,but it is thought to be based on the unofficial local flag used from 1832(which was later revived as the Federation Flag). The stars on...
I drew up my images on this page specifically for John Vaughan, and he will be using theseas the templates for the NSW flags that he (Australiana Flags) makes up forNSW government and the general public. That doesn't qualify the images asbeing "official" as it were, but Australiana Flags is probably Australia'sbiggest supplier of NSW flags which wi...
image by John Vaughan, 8 Sep 2006 New South Wales State Governor used the defaced Union Flag. It changed to a defaced Blue Ensign in 1981. David Prothero, 24 February 1997 The NSW Governor adopted the new pattern of a slight variation of the State Flag, with the addition of aSt. Edward's Crown above the fly badge on 15 January 1981 upon the retirem...
From 1867 to 1870, New South Wales flew a blue ensign with the white letters "NSW" Source: Australian Girl Scouts website (now defunct) Olivier Touzeau, 13 January 2001
image by Martin Grieve, 17 October 2013 Despatch No.197, Government House, Sydney, 1st December 1870 to Earl of Kimberley (Colonial Secretary) Extract: “The design [Five Stars (Golden) representing the Southern Cross upon a blue ground, the whole to be surmounted by a Crown] was intended as one for the ‘Governor’s’ Flag only. ..... My Ministers had...
The Colony of New South Wales was a colony of the British Empire from 1788 to 1901, when it became a State of the Commonwealth of Australia.At its greatest extent, the colony of New South Wales included the present-day Australian states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia, the Northern Territory as well as New Zealand.
The history of New South Wales refers to the history of the Australian state of New South Wales and the area's preceding Indigenous and British colonial societies. The Mungo Lake remains indicate occupation of parts of the New South Wales area by Indigenous Australians for at least 40,000 years. The British navigator James Cook became the first ...
The current state flag of New South Wales was officially adopted in 1876. The flag is based on the defaced British Blue Ensign with the state badge located in the fly.The badge, based on the coat of arms, is a white disc with the cross of St George, a golden lion passant guardant in the centre of the cross and an eight-pointed gold star on each arm of the cross.
The New South Wales State crest was gazetted on 18th February, 1876. The central red cross, in a larger silver cross, is the Red Cross of St George, the old badge of the Colony. It is also the Navy flag badge and so recognises the contribution to our discovery and development of the work of such naval officers as Captain Cook and Governors Philip, Hunter, King and Bligh.
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