Discover Me Tag Orkney County Flag

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Owner:
A West Sea Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Origin:
Northern Scotland, United Kingdom
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to one day find its way back to Birsay in Orkney where the flag was conceived. The flag began its journey at the Black Tower cache in Birsay and was taken to England to see how fast it could get back home.

About This Item

The official Orkney Community Flag was the winner of a public flag consultation in February and March 2007. In the flag consultation the people of Orkney were asked for their preferred design from a short list of 5,all of which had been approved by the Court of the Lord Lyon. The chosen design was that of Duncan Tullock of Birsay, which polled 53% of the 200 votes cast by the public. The colours red and yellow are from the Scottish and Norwegian royal coats of arms, which both use yellow and red, with a lion rampant. The flag symbolises the islands' Scottish and Norwegian heritage. The blue is taken from the flag of Scotland and also represents the sea and the maritime heritage of the islands. The flag resembles the flags of Norway (white for yellow). The issue of the supposed similarity with the flag of the Norwegian fascist Vidkun Quisling's party Nasjonal Samling was raised in The Orcadian in May 2007. That flag however did not include the blue cross, which make the two easily distinguishable. It should also be noted that a red & yellow flag was, and still is, used by people in a Swedish province years before Nasjonal Samling used a red&yellow cross flag. A red&yellow cross flag is also used by Swedish-speaking Finns.

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    Visited 4/3/2016 Löwe2003 took it to Isch hab Rücken!!! Hamburg, Germany - 11.71 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 4/2/2016 Löwe2003 took it to Tortenschlacht V - Das Naschen geht weiter Schleswig-Holstein, Germany - 9.07 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 4/1/2016 Löwe2003 took it to Verkieselte Baumstubben Klein Flottbek Hamburg, Germany - 10.02 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 4/1/2016 Löwe2003 took it to Zwischen Tulpen und Narzissen... Hamburg, Germany - 11.75 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 3/31/2016 Löwe2003 took it to Willkommen in SPO Schleswig-Holstein, Germany - 82.87 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 3/30/2016 Löwe2003 took it to ja klar - ich bin micro Schleswig-Holstein, Germany - 80.17 miles  Visit Log
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