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image by Zoltan Horvath, 10 September 2024
Nevis Island uses a new (or slightly modified) flag since 2019: yellow, with on the fly a green triangle with a blue base and a small white cloud at the top, in the canton, a reduced national flag.
Images of flag:
https://sknnewsline.com
https://nia.gov.kn
https://thelabourspokesman.com
https://caribbeannewsservice.com
https://www.sknvibes.com
https://www.sknvibes.com/news
This picture was taken in 2019:
https://sknpulse.com
and this picture in 2015:
https://nia.gov.kn/nevis-island-assembly
Zoltan Horvath, 10 September 2024
The article containing the second image (https://nia.gov.kn/nevis-island-assembly-to-sit-for-nia-2016-budget-address-delivery-dec-8th)
is from December 2015, but the image has probably been edited or modified in the
meantime as it is from April 2018.
Jean-Marc Merklin, 11 September
2024
Inside their Assembly they still display until today the old version:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Nevis+Island+Assembly
Paraskevas Renesis, 10 September 2024
Two possibilities:
- the white cloud should be the right shape for the
flag, and the white triangle is a simplified and de facto most frequent version.
The shape had been described as a triangle in 1995 by Mark Sensen, but maybe
then the two variants were already in use.
- the white cloud replaced the
white triangle flag at some point before 2014, but the first flag of Nevis,
still frequently observed in use, was with the white triangle.
Olivier
Touzeau, 10 September 2024
Nevis flags are sometimes bought with construction sheets given to the flag
makers, and somestimes bought to foreign flagmakers who simply follow the design
they have found on Wikipedia; and that even in Nevis, only a few people are
aware that the true flag of Nevis should have clouds and not a triangle.
Olivier Touzeau, 24 September 2024
image by Jaume Ollé, 08 September 2014
Nevis uses a distinctive flag: yellow, with on the
fly a green triangle with a blue base and a small white
triangle on top, in the canton the national flag.
Mark Sensen, 26 Oct 1995
The Album 2000 [pay00] says:
4. Nevis.≅3:5
Yellow ensign with the national flag in the
canton and triangular emblem in the fly. The emblem consists of a green
isoscales triangle with a blue stripe along the base and white smaller
triangle with the the green one, offset somewhat towards the top.
The dimensions are given in the Album
[pay00] as (6+8):(≅9+≅14).
The tildes on length measurements are due to the tilde in the overall
ratio ≅3:5.
Saying the same in other words, the flag in the canton is 3/7 of the
hoist high and appropriately long as the national flag should be (2:3).
The emblem seems to be triangle of base size equal to its hieght,
both being about 8 units (i.e. 8/14 of hoist; matching the album as close
as possible is 8.4/14). The blue base about 2 units (exactly 1.75) and
white triangle base and hieght about 3 units (exactly 2.8 in my image),
distance between blue and white parts equal to the blue stripe. All these
measurements are of little weight, unless they could be confirmed.
Željko Heimer, 01 Jan 2003
According a photo (flag at side of the premier of Nevis), the flag of Nevis
is slighty different that the one pictured here.
Ratio: I projected the image and seems that is 2:3 (same as the national flag in
canton)
Canton: about 1/3 of the high
Triangle: 2 (blue):1 (yellow):4 (green):4 (white) (the exact position of the
triangle in the flag I can't establish it). The yellow stripe does not show in the
drawings now.
The white is bordered by a narrow green line (about 1/3 of the yellow stripe)
Jaume Ollé, 08 September 2014
I think Jaume refers to this
photo (from
http://www.sknclt.com/ccm-government-signs-off-on-imf-land-for-debt-swap-agreement-on-nevis/)
or this one (from
http://article.wn.com) and obviously, well,
surprise!, the white part is in fact not simply a triangle...
Olivier Touzeau, 08 September 2014
image by Željko Heimer, 13 February 2005
image by Željko Heimer, 13 February 2005
Depending on sources, the colour of the lower stripe
of the triangle on the fly of the flag of Nevis is either
blue or black.
Armand Noel du Payrat, 13 Sep. 1999
In Robert Southey’s “Life of Nelson” (first published 1813), chapter 2 we
find that when Nelson was in command of the frigate “Boreas” in the West Indies
(in 1785) he was concerned with the fact that numerous American ships were
trading with the islands, which he considered was unlawful after American
independence. “When the Boreas arrived at Nevis, she found four American vessels
deeply laden, and what are called the island colours flying – white, with a red
cross. They were ordered to hoist their proper flag, and depart within
eight-and-forty hours”. The words “are called” rather than “were called” might
suggest the flag was still in use in 1813.
Kenneth Fraser, 21
September 2019
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image by Zoltan Horvath, 10 September 2024
Nevis Island Administration uses an emblem of its own, the Federation coat of
arms is placed on a yellow-bordered white disc. The legend is ’Nevis Island
Administration’.
https://nia.gov.kn/
Zoltan Horvath, 10 September 2024
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