British Fiji Islands 1924-1970 (Fiji) (original) (raw)

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[ ](../images/f/fj%5Fb70.gif) 1:2 image by Clay Moss, 10 December 2008
Flag adopted 1924 (coat-of-arms adopted 4th July 1908), abolished 1970

• Description
• Blue ensign with disk
• Red ensign
• Colonial Fiji Union flag
• Detail of coat of arms

See also:

• British Fiji Islands 1874-1970
• Historical Flags (Fiji)

Description

A letter dated 8th May 1924 informed the Colonial Office that instructions to remove the white circle had been issued by the governor. (ADM 116/1847B). Admiralty Flag Book 1930 [hms30], plate 35; under Fiji, notes that there is no white circle.
David Prothero, 22 December 1999 and 24 October 2002

Blue ensign with disk

[ ](../images/f/fj%5Fb24.gif)image by Clay Moss, 10 December 2008

I am not persuaded that the Fiji blue ensign, badge without disk ever really caught on from a popularity standpoint. It may have existed on paper, but I believe that the badge on disk version was used regularly right up to independence. I once saw a yacht in Hawaii was flying both the blue and red ensign and both had badges on the disk. And, the only other colonial Fiji ensigns I saw around independence time had disks as well. They were not old ensigns at the time. They were new.
Clay Moss, 10 December 2008

Red ensign

[ ](../images/f/fj%5Fr24.gif)image by Clay Moss, 10 December 2008

Colonial Fiji Union flag

[ ](../images/f/fj%5Fu.gif)image by Clay Moss, 17 December 2008

Detail of coat of arms

[ fj.gif)](../images/f/fj%29fj.gif)image by Clay Moss, 10 December 2008