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Wake Island (United States)

by Roy Stilling, 23 October 1996

Flag of Wake Island

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Flag of Wake Island

According to Ludvik Mucha's 1985 book THE ORBIS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FLAGS AND COATS AND ARMS_ (ed. by William Crampton)[MUC85]:, Wake Island does have a flag of its own, albeit an unofficial one. It's horizontally white over red with a vertical blue stripe at hoist - the trailing edge of the blue stripe is not straight but forms a point where the white and red stripes meet. In the blue there is a yellow disk containing a map of the atoll in blue, with the words WAKE above and ISLAND below in blue. The disk is flanked by three yellow five-pointed stars, all with one point upwards, one above, one flywards and one below.
Roy Stilling, 5 October 1996

My source for the original description is the illustration on p195 of Ludvik Mucha (ed. William Crampton) THE ORBIS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FLAGS AND COATS AND ARMS, London 1985.[MUC85]:

I've made the point of the blue pentagon at the hoist less pronounced and the stars smaller. The badge is nearly right except the words should be a bit smaller, maybe 2/3, and the map more pronounced - the elements of the island should be thicker and oriented so that the "arms" are parallel with the top and bottom of the flag. Unfortunately my artistic skills are not good enough to re-do the badge.
Roy Stilling, 21 October 1996