The flag of the Bahamas was officially adopted on July 10, The flag was designed by Rev. Hervis Bain — a Bahamian artist. The National Flag of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas features three equal horizontal bands of aquamarine top , gold, and aquamarine; with a black equilateral triangle based on the hoist side. The gold band color represents the golden beaches of the islands surrounded by the aquamarine sea.
The two-aquamarine blue color bands symbolize the Caribbean Sea and the black color represents the strength, vigor, and force of a united people. The black equilateral triangle pointing towards the body of the flag indicates the enterprise and determination of the Bahamian people to develop and possess the rich resources of land and sea. The flag has a width-to-length proportion ratio of This flag did not receive government approval until After this, The Bahamas began to negotiate their Independence and began to search for a new flag.
A competition was organized to pick the new flag design. The government chose to create The Bahamas Flag by combining aspects of several different design submissions that were received during the competition.
It contains a shield with the national symbols as its focal point. It dates back to the middle of the 19th century, but it did not receive government approval until , when the colony received significantly more autonomy from the British government. The Bahamas began to negotiate their independence less than a decade after that, and it began to search for a new design for the Bahamas flag at the same time. The government held a competition to pick the new design, but in the end it did not select any of the entries that it had received.
The government chose to create a Bahamas flag that combined aspects of several different submissions. That final design was a black triangle at the hoist combined with a horizontal band of yellow between two horizontal bands of aquamarine. Above the shield is a conical shell in front of the Panache of Palm Fronds — representing the diverse marine life of the island chain.
This is on top of a royal helmet, under which is a real shield. The main symbol of the shield is a ship that is reported to represent Santa Maria of Christopher Columbus. Who sails under a sun. The animals that support this shield are national animals — a marlin and a flamingo. Flamingo is located on land and Marlin is on the sea. Also, the vibrant colors of this sign indicate a bright future for these islands.
They are also known to have been maintained due to their attractiveness to tourists. The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is an English-speaking country of more than 3, large and small islands in the Atlantic Ocean, located east of Florida in the United States and north of Cuba. The population of the Bahamas is , and its capital is Nassau.
Also, the currency of the country is the Bahamas dollar. The Bahamas is part of the Commonwealth. It shares maritime borders with the United States, Cuba, and Haiti. The Bahamas is one of the richest countries in the Americas in terms of per capita income, after the United States and Canada. Eighty-five percent of its population is of African descent and 12 percent is of European descent. On August 3, , Christopher Columbus made his first voyage, and after three days and kilometers, he reached the Bahamas due to miscalculations.
Although the Spaniards never colonized the Bahamas, they entered the island and took all of its native people, the Lucayans, to Hispaniola for slavery. The Bahamas remained virtually uninhabited from to , when British colonialists moved from Bermuda to the island of Ultra and settled there.
In , the British suppressed piracy in the waters of the Bahamas, and the islands became part of the British Isles that year. After the American War of Independence from Britain, thousands of American loyalists to the British government and African slaves came to the Bahamas and established a farm-based economy on the islands.
Slavery abolished in the British Empire in , and many African slaves freed from the Royal Navy came to the Bahamas during the nineteenth century and settled on the islands. The present design of flag incorporated the elements of several submissions made in a national contest prior to the independence. Flag of Bahamas was approved in the year , which replaced the British Blue Ensign defaced with the emblem of the Crown Colony of the Bahamas Islands. The Bahamian flag has been often seen used as a flag of convenience by foreign-owned merchant vessels.
The Bahamas turn out to be a crown colony of the UK within its colonial empire in Under the colonial rule, the Bahamas Islands were used for British Blue Ensign and defaced territory. This inspired the pirates chased the British ships by two pirate ships, and out at the high seas encircled by the motto.
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