Islands
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flag of the Outer Hebrides | |||
| 2007 on | Flag of Orkney | A blue Nordic cross outlined in yellow on a red field. | |
| Flag of the Isles of Scilly | The Scillonian Cross | ||
| 1969 on | Flag of Shetland | A white Nordic cross on a light blue field | |
| 2009 on | Flag of the Isle of Wight | A pale blue field with a nicked rhombus (a representation of the island's shape) and at the bottom six alternating bars wavy, navy blue and white. |
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Famous quotes containing the word islands:
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)
“What are the islands to me
if you are lost
what is Naxos, Tinos, Andros,
and Delos, the clasp
of the white necklace?”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)