24 March 1902; 122 years ago (1902-03-24) (In use since 1869)
Design
A Blue Ensign with a Union Jack in the first quarter and four five-pointed red stars with white borders on the fly representing the Southern Cross.
Designed by
Albert Hastings Markham
New Zealand Red Ensign
Use
Civil ensign
Proportion
1:2
Adopted
Introduced in 1903.
Design
A Red Ensign with a Union Jack in the first quarter and four five-pointed white stars on the fly representing the Southern Cross.
New Zealand White Ensign
Use
Naval ensign
Proportion
1:2
Adopted
Introduced in 1968.
Design
A defaced British White Ensign with four five-pointed red stars representing the Southern Cross.
Royal New Zealand Air Force Ensign
Use
Air force ensign
Proportion
1:2
Adopted
Introduced in 1939.
Design
A modified form of the RAF Ensign with the letters "NZ" superimposed in white over the central red disc.
The flag of New Zealand, also known as the New Zealand Ensign,[1] is based on the British maritime Blue Ensign – a blue field with the Union Jack in the canton or upper hoist corner – augmented or defaced with four red stars centred within four white stars, representing the Southern Cross constellation.[2]
New Zealand's first internationally accepted national flag, the flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand, was adopted in 1834, six years before New Zealand's separation from New South Wales and creation as a separate colony following the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. Chosen by an assembly of Māori chiefs at Waitangi in 1834, the flag was of a St George's Cross with another cross in the canton containing four stars on a blue field. After the formation of the colony in 1840, British ensigns began to be used. The current flag was designed and adopted for use on the colony's ships in 1869, was quickly adopted as New Zealand's national flag, and given statutory recognition in 1902.
For several decades there has been debate about changing the flag.[3] In 2016, a two-stage binding referendum on a flag change took place with voting on the second final stage closing on 24 March. In this referendum, the country voted to keep the existing flag by 57% to 43%.[4]
^"Flags, Emblems, and Names Protection Act 1981 No 47 (as at 03 June 2017), Public Act – New Zealand Legislation". legislation.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 6 May 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
^"Flags". Ministry for Culture and Heritage. 23 July 2010. Archived from the original on 27 December 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
^Jones, Anna (24 March 2016). "The tangled tale of New Zealand's flag debate". BBC News. Archived from the original on 31 May 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
^"New Zealand votes to keep current flag". BBC News. 24 March 2016. Archived from the original on 18 June 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
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