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Flag of the government (state flag),
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Source, by: Flags of the World
Flag of the Governor,
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The flag of New South Wales is a so named "Blue Ensign", a dark blue bunting with a flag depiction – the British Union Jack – in the upper staff quadrant. The Union Jack points to the connexions to the United Kingdom. New South Wales was since 1851 a British colony, and in 1901 it became – like the other British colonies in Australia – an independent state, and was added to the Australian Federation. The motherland has still until 1986 any rights yet, towards the Australian Federation. The United Kingdom introduced a flag system in 1864 in which:
• war ships fly the "White Ensign" (naval flag), a white flag often with an uninterrupted red St. George's-Cross and with the Union Jack in the upper staff quadrant of the flag,
• merchant ships fly a "Red Ensign" (also named "Civil Ensign" => civil flag, the real merchant flag), a red flag with the Union Jack in the upper staff quadrant of the flag, and
• governmental ships fly the "Blue Ensign" (flag for the use by the gouvernment => the actual state flag), a blue flag with the Union Jack in the upper staff quadrant of the flag.
Since 1865 ships of colonial governments were permitted to fly the Blue Ensign with a badge in the flying end of the flag. The respective governments were asked to design appropriate badges. Merchant ships and seafaring persons from colonies were only permitted to use the Red Ensign with a badge, then also named Civil Ensign, if permission has been given to the respective colony by the British admiralty. For New South Wales this was not the case, however for the Autralian Federation. The badge of New South Wales shows on silvery ground the red St. George's-Cross with a golden gradient lion and four golden eight-jagged stars. The badge was adoped in this form into the Australian coat of arms.
Source: Die Welt der Flaggen
clickable Map:
Source: Corel Draw 4, modyfied by: Volker Preuß
Area: 309.128 square miles
Inhabitants: 7.480.228 (2016), thereof 140.000 Aborigines
Density of Population: 24 inh./sq.mi.
Capital: Sydney, 5.312.163 inh. (2019)
official Language: English
Currency: look Australia
Time Zone: GMT + 10 h
Source:
1. Wikipedia (D),
2. Wikipedia (D)
1788 · beginning British colonization
1851 · status as British colony
1851 · separation of Victoria
1853 · separation of Tasmania
1859 · separation of Queensland
1901 · Foundation of the Australian Federation
Source: Länder der Erde,
Weltgeschichte
