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	Flag of Victoria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The current state flag of Victoria in Australia is a British Blue Ensign defaced by the state badge of Victoria in the fly.
		The flag dates from 1877, with minor variations, the last of which was in 1953.
		Edward's Crown, and was changed in 1953 along with imperial crowns in flags and coats of arms across the Commonwealth of Nations in accordance with the wishes of Queen Elizabeth II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flag_of_Victoria (352 words)

	Victoria (Australia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Parliament of Victoria consists of the lower house Legislative Assembly, the upper house Legislative Council and the Queen of Australia.
		Victoria contains many topographically, geologically and climatically diverse areas, ranging from the wet, temperate climate of Gippsland in the southeast to the snow-covered Victorian alpine areas which rise to almost 2000 m (with Mount Bogong the highest peak at 1986 m) and extensive semi-arid plains to the west and north-west.
		Victoria's rainfall is concentrated in the mountainous north-east and coast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victoria_(Australia) (3215 words)

	Australia and its States, Sports, Food, Animals and Plants
		Victoria however is approximately only 3% of Australia's total land mass but has 1/4 of the population.
		About 35% of Victoria is covered by natural forest while mountainous regions are found in the north-east, where during the winter snow settles upon them.
		The flag of Victoria is a British Blue Ensign defaced with the state badge.
	www.angelfire.com /al2/Australia/Vic.html (747 words)

	Victoria State Identity, Flag, Coat of Arms, Floral & Animal Emblems - Aussie-Info.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		All State flags, except the Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory, use the Australian flag, based on the Blue Ensign, but have the particular badge of that State on the right hand side where the Southern Cross would be.
		Victoria's flag is made up of the Blue Ensign with the State badge.
		The original Coat of Arms of Victoria was granted on 6 June 1910 by King George V. The present coat of arms was granted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1973.
	www.aussie-info.com /places/vic/identity (162 words)

	Victoria (Australia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The Crown Victoria badge represented the status of the Governor as representative of Queen Victoria in the Colony.
		Victoria adopted the Southern Cross in 1870 initially for use on the HMCS Nelson - one of the early warships of the Colonial Navy.
		An image of the "Flag Badge" with Tudor Crown for use in Victoria, either on the State Flag (as shown), or within a dark blue shield on a white disc on the State Governor's Flag from 1901-53 was prepared by the British Admiralty in 1903.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/au-vic.html (1154 words)

	The 9 Province Flag (Canada)
		In the last decades of the 19th century the official flag of Canada, on land, was the Union Jack.
		The badge on the flag used by Canadian government vessels was a shield, derived from the Great Seal of Canada, which combined the arms of the four original provinces, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
		It may have been thought that this improved the appearance of the flag, by balancing the UJ in the top left corner; and/or that a badge should not be in the centre of the fly, where it straddles two quarters.
	flagspot.net /flags/ca-9prov.html (658 words)

	The Australian Flag - Similar and Related Flags (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The national flag most similar to and likely to be confused with that of Australia is the New Zealand flag, introduced for restricted use in 1869 and adopted as the New Zealand national flag in 1902.
		The flags of the six states of Australia are all based on the Blue Ensign with the State badge on the fly half of the flag; there is no Commonwealth Star on these flags.
		The flag of the British Anarctic Territory is based on the Blue Ensign and bears the shield of the former arms of the Falkland Islands.
	www.anbg.gov.au /oz/flag-similar.html (473 words)

	State Links - Victoria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Victoria lies in the south-eastern corner of the continent of Australia.
		Victoria was the first state to have its own flag.
		The flag is made up of the Blue Ensign with the badge of the state.
	www.hendrashs.qld.edu.au /australia/vic.html (324 words)

	Adelaide City Council - Reconciliation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The Australian flag is the official flag of Australia, however both the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags are recognised flags of Australia.
		Council unanimously endorsed the Flags and Banners Policy on 8 July 2002 resulting in the permanent flying of the Aboriginal flag in Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga and the permanent flying of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags on the flagpoles in front of the Town Hall.
		Thousands of people were involved in the Aboriginal flag ceremony which saw the flag carried from Parliament House to the centre of Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga prior to it being raised by Harold Thomas on one of the big flagpoles in Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga.
	www.adelaidecitycouncil.com /reconciliation/flag.htm (495 words)

	Centenary of Federation - Australian Symbols
		The white stars on the Victorian Flag have differing sizes and numbers of points (from eight to five), to signify the brilliance of each star in the constellation of the Southern Cross.
		The badge of Victoria is taken from the State flag.
		It copes with frosts and is found mainly in southern Victoria's semi-shaded wet foothills, coastal heathlands and in the scrub of the Little Desert.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/10492/20021115/resources/symbols/state_vic.htm (559 words)

	Victoria, Lake on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Numerous streams, including the Kagera River, feed Lake Victoria, which is one of the chief headwater reservoirs of the Nile; the Victoria Nile drains the lake to the north.
		The first European to see Lake Victoria (originally called Ukerewe) was John Speke, the British explorer, in 1858; Henry Stanley explored the region in 1875.
		Lake Victoria's Nile perch boom: a decade ago, Nile perch was only caught on Lake Victoria for domestic consumption, but today it is in heavy demand in European and Asian countries.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/V/VictoriaLk.asp (357 words)

	Victoria - the loss of the battleship 'Victoria' - 22 June 1893
		The Victoria would have hoisted a two-flag signal which denoted 'anchor instantly.' The Camperdown would have repeated the hoist, and, as Victoria's signalmen hauled it down, ten flsmiths armed with hammers would have knocked off the slips holding the cables and down would have simultaneously splashed ten anchors.
		The Staff Commander and the Flag Captain remarked to the Admiral that 1,200 yards was insufficient to allow the leading ships to turn together towards each other, and the Staff Commander suggested that 1,600 yards would be better, but even that would have been insufficient.
		The Flag Lieutenant therefore went to the Admiral, who was in his sea cabin, and queried whether it should be 1,200 yards or 1,600, explaining that "1,200" was flying.
	www.compass.dircon.co.uk /Victoria.htm (1842 words)

	VICTORIA, TRAVELLING IN VICTORIA, SIGHT SEEING IN VICTORIA
		Victoria may be Australia's smallest mainland state, but this does not stop it from still hosting some of the best National Parks and wonderful landscapes in the country.
		The general climate of Victoria is cooler than other parts of Australia.
		The state was named after the Queen of England, and the town was named in 1837, after her Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne.
	www.australianexplorer.com /victoria.htm (592 words)

	County Flags of Texas, Victoria County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		According to Charles Spurlin of the Victoria County Historical Society, the flag is normally seen with all of its elements in fl on a field of white.
		Across the top of the flag, in blue, are the words "Victoria County." Across the bottom, in red and in quotation marks is the legend "Where the history of Texas begins."
		Cabeza de Vaca and a handful of his men survived a shipwreck on the Texas coast near present-day Victoria and were captured by Indians, thereby becoming the first Europeans to penetrate the interior of Texas.
	members.aol.com /txflags/victoria.html (392 words)

	British Columbia
		In Canada, the vice-regal flag badges were surrounded by a wreath of maple leaves; in British Columbia, still a colony, the flag badge was surrounded, as was standard British practice, by a wreath of laurel.
		In the centre of a Union Flag, it bore the royal crest flanked by B and C and surrounded by a laurel wreath.
		An informal flag representing a region is that of Vancouver Island, suggested in 1988 by Victoria resident, Michael Halleran.
	fraser.cc /FlagsCan/Provinces/BC.html (3416 words)

	TXGenWeb Victoria County, Texas Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Victoria was settled as a colony of Martin de Leon in 1824 under the Mexican government.
		Victoria County Archives - a project of the USGenWeb.
		Museum of the Coastal Bend Victoria's newest museum, developed to showcase the rich multi-cultural heritage and archaeology of the mid-coastal region of Texas.
	www.viptx.net /vcgs (1365 words)

	Ausflag - Victoria (1870-1877) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Victoria was, though, the first Australian colony to acquire a warship, and thus the need arose under the
		The design sent to the Colonial Office and approved by the British Admiralty was possibly inspired by the 1851 flag of the Anti-Transportation League, a group who fought to end the transportation of convicts from England to Australia.
		Shown above, this flag was a blue ensign defaced with a Southern Cross, whose stars ranged from five to eight points, with one point of each star pointing to the bottom of the flag.
	www.ausflag.com.au /flags/vic1870.html (211 words)

	New Australian Flags: Victoria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The flag of Victoria incorporates the state's heraldic colours.
		Its design is based upon the bicolour "Australian pale" used in the flags of the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory.
		Blue and white have also been informally adopted as the colours of representative sporting teams from Victoria and are also the colours of the Eureka flag.
	members.optusnet.com.au /~brendan.jones/flags/vic.html (224 words)

	flagsonline.net Flag of Victoria
		The colonies were advised by the Imperial Parliament to adopt flags based on the British Blue Ensign, with their colony badge or emblem positioned in the fly.
		On the 4th of February 1870, the Governor of Victoria proclaimed the Colony of Victoria’s badge to be 5 stars, symbolising the Southern Cross, on a blue background.
		The five stars in the fly of the flag symbolise the constellation the Southern Cross, representing the stars Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta each with seven points and Epsilon with five points because it doesn't shine as brightly as the other stars in the constellation.
	www.flagsonline.net /Australia/victoria.htm (367 words)

	Pictures of Australia - Australian flag
		The flag shows the British Union Jack in the upper left and six white stars on a blue background.
		Aborigines: The flag was designed by the aboriginal Harold Thoms, and was hoisted up for the first time in 1971.
		Eureka flag: It was used for the first time during the uprising of gold miners in Ballarat/VIC in 1854.
	www.australienbilder.de /e-flags.htm (323 words)

	Jose Felix Ribas (Aragua, Venezuela) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		La Victoria city flag is blue-crimsom/red-blue with the Coat of Arms on the center, the blue stripes about a third of the central one's height.
		On March, visiting La Victoria I noticed that all the city flags had a lighter shade of red than the one depicted on the official regulations.
		Editions of the Aragua State Government, Maracay), La Victoria's flag has some odd dimensions: it's 4:3, 3 horizontal stripes (navy-crimsom-navy), the middle one twice as high as the upper and lower ones.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/ve-d-jfr.html (217 words)

	August-December 2004 Betsy Ross Guestbook Archives
		The Code plainly states that our flag is 13 stripes of red and white, with 48 stars (updated by common sense to 50 by using Subsection 2)of white on a blue background.
		i think the flag means for freedom and librday i think everyone should sing i pleg of legon because its mostly about the flsg and the flag stands for this country and this country stands for freedom.
		hi, i have a small flag that came from the philadelphiamuseum years ago, it is hand made, and inscribed on the edge it states made by betsy rosses great grand daughter i believe.
	www.ushistory.org /betsy/guestbook/betsyguests2004c.htm (9407 words)

	AntiTransportation League (Australasia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The League's flag strongly resembles the Australian National Flag and its influence can be seen in the design of the flag of Victoria.
		Whether the flag was mounted on this for exhibit purposes or as a border to the flag, I don't know.
		If the image is of the same as previously published in Frank Cayley's "Flag of Stars", then the white border on three sides of the flag is part of the original design.
	flagspot.net /flags/au_atl.html (362 words)

	Green flag for Royal Victoria Park
		Royal Victoria Park, which is owned and maintained by Bath and North East Somerset Council, is one of only 12 parks and green spaces in the south west to achieve the award.
		The Green Flag Award scheme is the national standard for parks and green spaces recognises the value of green spaces in communities, particularly urban environments, and rewards excellent standards of park management.
		Julia Thrift, Director of CABE Space, said: “This year’s 45 percent increase in Green Flag winning parks is a tribute to all the hard work of park managers across the country, and we are delighted to see the scheme growing so rapidly.
	www.bathnes.gov.uk /press_releases/g-m-releases/green-flag-for-royal-victoria-park.htm (1076 words)

	January-March 2001 Betsy Ross Guestbook Archives
		The flag is a symbol of the best country in the world, and it will continue to fly high for a long time to come, as we continue to be the country the flag stands for.
		The American Flag is shown in a yellow band (possibly representing the coward streak in gov. Barnes)at the bottom of the Georgia flag underneath the Georgia Seal and at the rear of other flags.
		To me the flag is a visual symbol of the souls who had the courage to fight for the formation of a country, define freedom, and the quest to keep it all in tact and together through the years.
	www.ushistory.org /betsy/guestbook/betsyguests2001.htm (11386 words)

	Victoria County Genealogical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The Victoria County Webpage, edited by Cynthia and Jack Buttram, was awarded second place in 2001 by the Texas State Genealogical Society, third place in 2002 and Distinguished Award in 2003.
		A Resolution of Commendation was presented to Doria Obsta and VCGS by Victoria Co. Commissioners' Court, January 15, 2001, for the publication of THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF VICTORIA COUNTY, TEXAS.
		This flag was first unfurled October 28,1936 on the occasion of the Texas Centennial celebration and commemoration of the 112th anniversary of the founding of Victoria in 1824 by Martin de Leon.
	www.viptx.net /vcgs/vcgs.html (876 words)

	Victoria Baptist Church -- Jack, Alabama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Victoria Baptist Church members paid tribute to all whom attended with a plaque and luncheon.
		Victoria Flag Memorial - Below are photos taken during the flag ceremony in Honor of our Past, Present and Future Soldiers - Special mention of Jason Jordan whom lost his life in the service of his country while serving in IRAQ.
		All we know about his age is what he eluded "...I am older than a new born and younger than a 100 ft. red wood tree".
	www.alaweb.com /~mbmandello/VictoriaBaptist/id5.html (664 words)

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