It was Designed By Nativity Maka and Mardochee Manirakiza in 1973
It symbolises the unity of all Torres Strait Islanders, it is displayed with a white headdress which is a distinctive dance gear called a Dhari. The white five pointed star beneath it represents the five major island groups in the Torres Straits and shows the navigational importance of stars to the seafaring people. Green stripes represent the land, black the people, and blue the sea.
The colours on the Torres Strait Islands flag represent the following:Green: Represents the landBlue: Represents the seaWhite: Represents peaceBlack: Represents the Indigenous peoplesThe five-pointed star represents the 5 main island groups, while the headdress (dhari) represents the people of the Torres Strait Islands.
The Aboriginal flag is divided horizontally into equal halves of black at the top and red at the bottom, and has a yellow circle in the center. Black symbolizes the Aboriginal people, the red represents the earth and the and the yellow circle represents the sun. The Torres Strait Islander flag has three horizontal panels, the top and bottom panels are green and the middle one blue. These panels are divided by thin black lines. The green is for the land, the blue is for the sea and the black represents the Torres Strait Islander people. In the centre of the flag is a white dancers headress which is a symbol for all Torres Strait Islander people. Underneath the dari is a white five-pointed star. These five points represent the island groups in the Torres Strait and the white stands for peace.
It is a dhari (A dancer's headdress)
No. The Australian flag did not exist at the time. Captain James Cook did not raise the British flag on the mainland, but on Possession Island in Torres Strait - claiming the eastern coastline of Australia for Britain.
The wide centre stripe of the Torres Strait Islands flag is blue, and it represents the sea. The actual colour reference is described as Blue PANTONE® 301 See the related link below for an image.
Bernard Namok was born in 1977. He designed the flag for the Torres Strait Islands in 1992 as a school project contest when he was 15 years old.
The aboriginals where the first australians so when the white people came they where thought as dirt. After this long period of time the Aboriginals become more indipendant and thought of their own flag. Along with that flag every state has its own flag.
It's a representative symbol of one of the 50 states of the United States.
The symbol on the flag is the Maple Leaf and it that symbol was adopted on the day the flag was adopted, February 15, 1965.
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