Thursday, June 30, 2016

Geographic Flag of Diego Garcia


The Geographic Diego Garcia flag is a tribar of white, purple, and orange- which indicates a Longitude of 72 Degrees East.  The central stars of white and purple indicate a Latitude of 7 Degrees South. 

Diego Garcia is the Midway of the Indian Ocean, or rather, Midway is the Diego Garcia of the Pacific Ocean?

The colours are coded to numbers.  And the code is based upon the order of a rainbow.  Orange is 2, since it is the second colour.  Yellow is three, since it is the third colour and so on.



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia#/media/File:Diego_Garcia_Hernandia_Forest.png

Geographic Flag of Darwin, Australia





Darwin, Australia has the same tribar background as Kurume, Japan.  This is because they reside on the same meridian.  Both cities are a part of the 130th East.  What this means is that the majority of these inhabitants dream, sleep, and wake in unison.  It is especially for Australia whose culture puts great weight on the dream-time.  Likewise for Japan, where dreams are considered magical and special. 



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin,_Northern_Territory#/media/File:City_landscape_of_Darwin,_Northern_Territory.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Kurume_montage.png

Geographic Kurume Flag


The Geographic Kurume flag is a tribar of red, yellow, and white that is coded to the cities Longitude: 130 Degrees East.   In the center are two yellow stars that is coded to the Latitude: 33 Degrees North.  The central yellow pentagon indicates the Eastern Hemisphere, while the upward pointing dominant yellow star indicates the Northern Hemisphere.

Fun Fact!  Kurume is due North of Darwin. 




Geographic Beijing Flag





The Geographic Flag of Beijing has a field of red and indigo.  In the center is a yellow star dominant to a pink star. The background is coded to 116 Degrees East, while the stars show us 39 Degrees North. 




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Image Credit: Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing#/media/File:Hall_of_Supreme_Harmony,_Forbidden_City,_Beijing,_with_tourists_2.jpg

Geographic Rio de Janeiro Flag





The Geographic flag for Rio de Janeiro is a tribar of white, green, and yellow.  These colours are coded to zero, green, and yellow- which in turn are coded to numbers: 043.  The number 43 refers to Rio De Janeiro's Longitude at 43 Degrees West.  Likewise the two pointed orange stars refer to the number 22, since Rio's Latitude is 22 Degrees South.

The central white pentagon denotes that this is a Western line of Longitude.  Also the dominant upside down star denotes that this is a Southern Parallel.

The order of the colour to number is based upon the order of appearance in a rainbow.  Orange is 2, because it is the second colour of the rainbow.  Yellow is 3, since it is the third colour of a rainbow.  Green is 4, because it is the fourth colour of the rainbow.  Since there are only seven official colours in a rainbow, the numbers 8, 9, and 0 are coded to black, pink, and white; unless they appear in the pentagon or form the outline of the central stars of Latitude.

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 Image Credit: Wikipedia
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Montagem_RJ.jpg


Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Geographic Flag for Cheyenne, Wyoming






The Geographic Flag for Cheyenne, Wyoming has a tribar of red, white, and green.  Each bar is coded to a number based upon the rainbow, which is reflective of Longitude: 104 Degrees West.  The stars in the center are coded to 41 Degrees North.  Red is the 1st colour and green is the 4th colour, while white is equal to zero.

The central white pentagon indicates a Western Line of Longitude, while the upward green star indicates a Northern Parallel.





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http://www.jiffyautoglass.com/cheyenne-wyoming.html

Geographic Carson City, Nevada






The flag for 119 Degrees West by 39 Degrees north uses the colours red and pink as the field.  The field's colours are coded to numbers which reflect 119.  Also the white pentagon in the center is reflective of Western Hemisphere.  The two stars in the middle code for Latitude: 39 Degrees. 







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Image Credit: https://ndep.nv.gov/photo/carson.htm

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Navassa Island Geographic Flag









The Navassa Island Geographic Flag is a tribar of white, purple, and blue.  The colors are coded to numbers based upon the rainbow.  The central star represents the Latitude of 18 Degrees North.  See the Flag Key below to make sense of the number to color symbolism.

Note this is an apolitical, scientific, objective flag that any nation can fly.  This makes these flags useful in disputed areas.

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Image Credit: Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navassa_Island#/media/File:NavassaCoastAerialUSGS.jpg

Geographic Flag for Juneau, Alaska





The Geographic Flag of Juneau, Alaska reveals its Longitude at 134 Degrees West.  This is indicated by the tribar of red, yellow, and green.  With these types of flags, colors are coded to numbers.  In this case 1, 3, 4, equals 134, which is the Longitude that Juneau sits on.  The central white pentagon also signals that this is in the Western Hemisphere.

The two stars tell the Latitude: 58 Degrees North.  Since the dominant star is pointing up, it is a Northern Parallel.  The code of color to number is based upon the order of the rainbow: red = 1, yellow = 3 and green = 4.

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Image Credit: Wikipedia 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneau,_Alaska#/media/File:Downtown_Juneau_and_Douglas_Island.jpg

Geographic Denver, Colorado Flag


The Denver, Colorado Geographic flag is a tribar of red, white, and green.  The colours of this flag are coded to numbers which show its Latitude and Longitude.  As for the Longitude: red, white, and green code for one, zero, and for- indicating Longitude of 104 Degrees West.  Also the central white pentagon indicates this is a Western line of Latitude.

The stars of this flag reveal the Latitude: 39 Degrees North.  Yellow is coded to three, while pink is coded to nine.  Thus we have 39 Degrees North.  Since the dominant star is pointing up, this indicates a Northern Parallel.
 
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Geographic Flag for Lubbock, Texas





The Geographic Flag for Lubbock, Texas is a tribar of red, white, and red.  Note that colors are coded to numbers.  And the order is based upon a rainbow: red is coded to 1, yellow is coded to 3, and white is coded to zero. 

The star in the middle represents the latitude: 33 Degrees North.  Since both stars are yellow it makes the number 33.  Also the dominant front star is pointing upwards, and this indicates the Northern Hemisphere.  In addition the central white pentagon indicates a Western line of Longitude.



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Photo Credit: Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubbock,_Texas#/media/File:LubbockSkyline2013.jpg

Geographic Portland, Oregon Flag





The Geographic Portland, Oregon flag has field of red and orange.  These colors relate to lines of longitude.  In these types of objective and truly scientific flags, colors are coded to numbers.  The order of color to number is based upon the official order of the rainbow. 

Red is coded 1, since it is the first color of the rainbow.  Orange is coded to 2, as it is the second color. Usually Geographic flags of this nature are tribars.  However Portland, Oregon lies on the 122th Western Meridian, thus it gets double dose of orange -forming a block. 

In the center the two five pointed stars reveal Portland's Longitude, which is 45 Degrees North.  Remember that green is coded to 4, since it the fourth color of the rainbow.  And that blue is coded to 5, since it is the fifth color of the rainbow.  Thus when read the stars show us 45 Degrees North.  As the dominant green star is pointing upwards, this indicates a Northern Parallel. 

Note that the white pentagon in the center relates to hemisphere.  Since it is white, we know it is a Western Meridian.  Otherwise a yellow pentagon indicates an Eastern Meridian.  Finally this is a vexillologically "GOOD FLAG" and coincidentally happens to conserve the main colors of the official Portland, Oregon City Flag - green and blue.


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Image Credit: Wikipedia
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/PDX%2C_Oregon_collage.png

Hans Island Flag






The scientific, vexillologically speaking, apolitical, "GOOD FLAG" Hans Island flag reads: 66 Degrees West by 80 Degrees. See the Flag Key below.


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Willis Island Flag






Willis Island is one of the few inhabited islands of the Great Barrier Reef.  Note that this reef does indeed have habitable isles that people can live upon.  This Geographic flag reveals this Willis Island's Latitude and Longitude at: 149 Degrees East by 16 Degrees South.

The red, green, pink tribar colours are coded to numbers, based upon the order of the rainbow.  Red is 1, green is 4, and pink is 9; thus 149 Degrees East.  Also the central yellow pentagon indicates that this is in the Eastern Hemisphere. 

As for Latitude, the red and indigo stars read as 16 Degrees South.  Since the dominant red star is pointing downwards, we know it is a Southern Parallel. 




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Image Credit: Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Island_(Coral_Sea)#/media/File:Willis_Island.JPG

Cato Island Flag, Australia


The Geographic flag for Cato Island, Australia has a background of red and blue, and the colours are coded to numbers.  In this case they mean 155.  Since five is repeated it forms a larger block.  The star in the center reveals the latitude of 23 Degrees South.

For these types of flag the colours are linked to numbers, based upon the order of the rainbow.  Red is 1; orange is 2, yellow, is 3, and blue is 5.  Thus the field reads as 155 Degrees East by 23 Degrees South. The front star pointing down indicates a Southern Parallel, while the yellow pentagon indicates the Eastern Hemisphere.


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Image Credit: Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Reef#/media/File:Cato_Island_Station.jpg

Lo'ihi Seamount Flag





The Geographic Lo'ihi Seamount flag uses US patriotic colours of red, white, and blue with dash of black.  The colours are coded to numbers.  And the code is based upon the order a rainbow.  Red being the first colour, so it represents 1.  Blue as the fifth colour, it represents 5.  Also white represents zero, while black represents 8. 

Usually these types of flags are tribars, but since 155 Degrees West has two 5s, we have a blue field. 

In the center are two five pointed stars, which are coded to latitude.   They represent the number 18, for 18 Degrees North.  The dominant red star represents to tens column, while the background star represents the ones column.  Also the white pentagon indicates that this is the Western Hemisphere.  And finally the upward dominant star indicates that this is a Northern parallel. 

Also note this flag can be flown over the southern tip of Hawaii's King Island, since crosses this geographic panel.  

Lo'ihi is predicted to appear above the surface at earliest in the Year 9876 or at latest by Year 12,345.  By that time our species will have vanished like the dinosaurs due to cybernetic integration and genetic modifications.  But humans as we are today may be kept alive in 'zoos of the future' or traded like cattle to do menial and undesirable work.



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Monday, June 27, 2016

Geographic Salt Lake City Flag






The Geographic Salt Lake City flag has a field of red.  Usually Geographic flags are composed of tribars with each bar coded to color and number.  Since red is the first color of the rainbow it represents the number 1.

Since Salt Lake City sits at 111 Degrees West.  The field is completely red!  The central white pentagon also indicates that this is a western line of longitude.  Otherwise it would be yellow to indicate an eastern line of longitude.

The two stars show us the latitude, which is 40 degrees.  Since green is the 4th colour of the rainbow, the dominant star is green. 

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Image Credit: Wikipedia
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Salt_Lake_City_montage_19_July_2011.jpg