Merchant flag,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Flags of the World
Naval flag,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Flags of the World
Flag of the Navy Board,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Flags of the World
Flag of the Air Force,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Flags of the World
Civil air ensign,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Wikipedia (DE)
1962–2022,
Flag of the Queen,
ratio = 3:4,
Source, by: Flags of the World
since 2008,
Flag of the governor general,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Flags of the World
1835–1840,
First national flag,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Die Welt der Flaggen
1840–1867,
Flag of United Kingdom,
ratio = 3:5,
Source, by: Die Welt der Flaggen
1867–1869,
Flag of the government (state flag),
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Die Welt der Flaggen
1869–1899,
Flag of the government (state flag),
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Die Welt der Flaggen
1899–1902,
Flag of the government (state flag),
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Die Welt der Flaggen
1899–1902,
National and merchant flag,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Die Welt der Flaggen
1953–2008,
Flag of the governor general,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Flags of the World
2015, Proposal,
for a new flag of New Zealand,
ratio = 3:5,
Source, by: Flags of the World
Unofficial flag of New Zealand,
ratio = 3:5,
Source, by: Flags of the World
Unofficial flag of New Zealand,
ratio = 3:5,
Source, by: Die Welt der Flaggen
Unofficial Maori national flag,
called "Aotearoa Flag",
Source, by: mch.govt.nz
The today's national flag of New Zealand – the New Zealand Blue Ensign – was officially introduced on 12th of June in 1902. It is blue with the "Union Jack" in the upper staff quadrant beside it the Southern Cross composed by four white bordered red stars. The stars symbolize the southern sky und the "Union Jack" remembers the allegiance to the British motherland.
New Zealand was Christian missioned since 1814. The missionars and the Maori (natives) agreed in 1835 for a common flag for New Zealand. That flag was named Waitangi-Flag. It was inspired by the flag of the Church Missionary Society, was white with an uninterrupted red cross with a blue upper staff quadrant with an uninterrupted red cross in it. In the blue areas was ever one eight-pointed white star. As New Zealand in the year 1840 became a British colony was introduced the British "Union Jack" as national flag.
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. The first badge for the New Zealand Blue Ensign (only to use on governmental vessels) was introduced in the year 1867 and consisted of the white bordered red letters "NZ".
On 23rd of October in 1869 the Blue Ensign got a new design and equaled in essentialy the today's national flag of New Zealand and showed four white bordered red stars.
The badges of the British colonies have been at that time always an oftenly white disk in the flying end of the flag on which was to see the actual badge. Probably because of that they began do depict the four stars since the year 1899 officially on a white disk. Just as it was New Zealand allowed to use since 1899 a merchant flag – the so named Red Ensign.
With the New Zealand Ensign Act from 1901 (which came into power on 27th of June in 1902) was introduced the New Zealand flag in its today's form. With it were done among other things exact fixings about size and arrangement of the stars.
The Red Ensign showed initially the red, white bordered stars on the red bunting of the flag, but it was changed in 1903 in this wise that the stars were white in the red field. It is allowed to use the New Zealand Red Ensign even by land and by the Maori.
The flag of the Queen is a scutcheon flag with the goldenen crowned royal initial stages on a blue disk within a garland of golden roses in the mittle of the flag. It was introduced on 11th of October in 1962.
Since the Statute of Westminster (1931) had the Governor Generals of Commonwealth states blue flags withe the royal crest, underneath the name of the state, mostly on a banner. This design is also in use by the Governor General of New Zealand.
Again and again there are discussions in New Zealand about changing the flag, and diverse unofficial flags circulate in the land, because even the Maori use own unofficial flags. Background is the refusal of British symbolism, which is perceived as dated or to British. The most popular unofficial flag of New Zealand, the "Fighting Kiwi", is often in use by the New Zealanders. The mostly known flag of the Maori is the "Aotearoa Flag".
Source:
Flaggen Enzyklopädie, Die Welt der Flaggen, Wikipedia (DE)
Coat of arms of New Zealand,
Source: Corel Draw 4
The coat of arms was awarded on 26th of August in 1911 but changed in 1956 by add of the royal crown, and shows a twice divided shield with the Southern Cross and symbolic references for agriculture, shipping, cattle-breeding and industry (sheaf, three galleys, fleece, mining hammers). As shield supporters act a white woman with flag and a Maori warrior with spear. On a banner below the shield the name of the state.
Source:
Die Welt der Flaggen,
Flaggen Wappen Hymnen
Aircraft Roundel,
Source, by: Wikipedia (EN)
1943–1946,
Aircraft Roundel,
Source, by: Wikipedia (EN)
Location:
Source: CIA World Factbook
Map of the country:
Source: CIA World Factbook
Area: 104.113 square miles
Inhabitants: 5.100.000 (2020), thereof 67% Europeans (thereof 10.700 Germans), 14% Maori, 7% Polynesians, 3% Chinese, 2% Indians
Religions: 13% Roman Catholic, 12% Anglikan, 8% Protestant, 5% other Christian, 2% Hindu, 1% Muslim, 1% Buddhist, 42% Non-Religious
Density of Population: 49 inh./sq.mi.
Capital: Wellington, 190.959 inh. (2013)
official Language: English
other Languages: Maori
Currency: 1 New Zealand Dollar (NZD, NZ$) = 100 Cents
Time Zone: GMT + 12 h
Cook-Islands
Niue
Tokelau
Chatham-Islands
ca. 1350 · the Polynesian Mori settle in New Zealand
1642 · discovery by the Dutch seafarer Abel Janszoon Tasman
1769–1777 · research of the coast by the English seafarer James Cook
1815 · start of the Christian mission
1832 · New Zealand gets subordinated under the administration of the British colony of New South Wales
1835 · the Maori tribes join together
1839 · settlement by European settlers in assignment of the British New Zealand Company
6th of February 1840 · United Kingdom acquires by the Treaty of Waitangi with the native Maori the legal ownership for New Zealand
3rd of May 1841 · New Zealand becomes a British colony
1847 · the Auckland- and Campbell Islands become annexed to New Zealand
1852 · New Zealand gets limited self administration
1856 · New Zealand gets its first government
1860–1872 · Maori Wars, decimation of the native population
1893 · worldwide first introduction of the women's suffrage
1901 · the Cook Islands become annexed to New Zealand
1907 · New Zealand gets the status of a Dominion, full self administration
1920 · New Zealand gets the mandate of the League of Nations for the administration of the German Colony of
Samoa (West Samoa)
1926 · New Zealand takes over the administration of the Tokelau Islands over West Samoa
1931 · Westminster Statute, New Zealand becomes a part of the British Commonwealth of Nations
1947 · new constitution
1950 · engagement in the Korea War
1951 · joining to the ANZUS Pact
1954 · joining to the SEATO Pact
1962 · West Samoa gets dismissed in the independence
1965–1973 · engagement in the Vietnam War
1972 · withdrawal out of the SEATO
1986 · suspension of the membership in the ANZUS Pact
1987 · verification of the Treaty of Waitangi in which the Maori can claim properties
1995 · succession treaty for the regulation of the property law, compensation law for the Maori
Source:
Atlas zur Geschichte,
World Statesmen,
Wikipedia (D)
As the Dutch seafarer Abel Janszoon Tasman discovered the country in the year 1642 he named the land "Niuv Zeeland" (New Sea Land) after the Dutch Province of Seeland. As the British colonized the islands they took over this geographical name and partially even the style of writing.
Source: Handbuch der geographischen Namen
