Flags of the British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies
Blue Ensigns with a badge for most of the far-flung territories, and something quite different in Gibraltar and the Channel Islands.
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Most of Britain’s overseas territories fly the Blue Ensign, the Union Jack on dark blue, with the territory’s coat of arms in the fly. The Crown Dependencies, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, were never colonies and aren’t part of the UK, and their flags look nothing like the rest.
Crown Dependencies
Guernsey
St George’s cross with a gold cross inside it, from William the Conqueror’s banner.
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Europe and the Atlantic
Bermuda
A Red Ensign, not a blue one, with the wreck of the Sea Venture, whose survivors settled Bermuda in 1609.
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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
A reindeer, brought in by whalers, above the arms.
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British Antarctic Territory
A white ensign with the territory’s arms, held by a lion and an emperor penguin.
The Caribbean
British Virgin Islands
St Ursula, surrounded by lamps for the virgins Columbus named the islands after.
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The Indian Ocean and Pacific
Pitcairn Islands
An anchor and a Bible from the Bounty, whose mutineers settled the island.
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