8/4/2023 0 Comments Victoria 3 flags![]() History of the state flag 1870-1877 blue ensign with southern cross badge The Australian national flag was originally designed to also follow this pattern.Ĭolin Dobson and Jonathan Dixon, 5 August 2004 There are 8,7,7,6 and 5 points for Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon Crucis respectively. ![]() The number of points on the stars indicates the varying brightness of the stars which make up the Southern Cross. Over the following decades, the southern cross "grew" outside of the nominal disc area, and eventually the pretence of the disc disappeared. In a rare display of independence (with respect to flags) the Victorian Government unilaterally approved the flag design anyway. ![]() This caused the British Admiralty some consternation, who suggested the Victorian badge should be redesigned as the southern cross on a blue shield on a white disc. Theoretically the Victorian badge was on a disc, but the disc was the same colour as the field, blue. The Southern Cross had become fairly well associated with Australia during the 19th Century. Use on the HMCS Nelson - one of the early warships of the Colonial Navy. Victoria adopted the Southern Cross in 1870 initially for The Crown Victoria badge represented the status of the Governor as representative of Queen Victoria in the Colony. Because some of the Australian state badges were originaly created to represent the Governor (as distinct from the Colony) they generally showed some element ofīritish royal heraldry - the main criteria being that it be different from similar badges used in other parts of the Empire. The Victorian state flag was created as a colonial flag - a British Blue Ensign with the badge of the colony added to the blue field.
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