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Falkland Islands (United Kingdom)

Islas Malvinas

by Zeljko Heimer, 1996-02-23

Description of the badge
Old flag of the Governor

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Description of the badge

The arms of the Falkland Islands are:

blue chief with a white ram on a grass conpartment over a blue and white wavy base bearing a Tudor style ship

Before 1948, there was a bull in the badge. But since sheep raising is the major activity on the Islands, they changed it to a ram.
The ship is supposed to be the Desire, the ship that discovered the islands in 1592, thus giving us the colony's motto Desire the Right, as it was written on a scroll at the bottom of it. The ship and the river are in the newer badge much more stylized.
Roy Stilling, Stuart Park and Nick Artimovich, 1996-02-21

Old flag of the Governor

by Steven Shea 1996-08-20