Nevis Island (Saint Kitts and Nevis) (original) (raw)

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image by Zoltan Horvath, 10 September 2024

Description of the flag
Previous variants
A 19th century flag
Emblem See also:
Saint Kitts and Nevis

Description of the flag

Nevis Island uses a new (or slightly modified) flag since 2019: yellow, with on the fly a green triangle with a blue base and a small white cloud at the top, in the canton, a reduced national flag.

The article containing the second image (https://nia.gov.kn/nevis-island-assembly-to-sit-for-nia-2016-budget-address-delivery-dec-8th) is from December 2015, but the image has probably been edited or modified in the meantime as it is from April 2018.
Jean-Marc Merklin, 11 September 2024

Inside their Assembly they still display until today the old version:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Nevis+Island+Assembly
Paraskevas Renesis, 10 September 2024

Two possibilities:
- the white cloud should be the right shape for the flag, and the white triangle is a simplified and de facto most frequent version. The shape had been described as a triangle in 1995 by Mark Sensen, but maybe then the two variants were already in use.
- the white cloud replaced the white triangle flag at some point before 2014, but the first flag of Nevis, still frequently observed in use, was with the white triangle.
Olivier Touzeau, 10 September 2024

Nevis flags are sometimes bought with construction sheets given to the flag makers, and somestimes bought to foreign flagmakers who simply follow the design they have found on Wikipedia; and that even in Nevis, only a few people are aware that the true flag of Nevis should have clouds and not a triangle.
Olivier Touzeau, 24 September 2024

Previous variants

image by Jaume Ollé, 08 September 2014

Nevis uses a distinctive flag: yellow, with on the fly a green triangle with a blue base and a small white triangle on top, in the canton the national flag.
Mark Sensen, 26 Oct 1995

The Album 2000 [pay00] says:

4. Nevis.≅3:5

Yellow ensign with the national flag in the canton and triangular emblem in the fly. The emblem consists of a green isoscales triangle with a blue stripe along the base and white smaller triangle with the the green one, offset somewhat towards the top. The dimensions are given in the _Album_[pay00] as (6+8):(≅9+≅14). The tildes on length measurements are due to the tilde in the overall ratio ≅3:5. Saying the same in other words, the flag in the canton is 3/7 of the hoist high and appropriately long as the national flag should be (2:3). The emblem seems to be triangle of base size equal to its hieght, both being about 8 units (i.e. 8/14 of hoist; matching the album as close as possible is 8.4/14). The blue base about 2 units (exactly 1.75) and white triangle base and hieght about 3 units (exactly 2.8 in my image), distance between blue and white parts equal to the blue stripe. All these measurements are of little weight, unless they could be confirmed.
Željko Heimer, 01 Jan 2003

According a photo (flag at side of the premier of Nevis), the flag of Nevis is slighty different that the one pictured here.
Ratio: I projected the image and seems that is 2:3 (same as the national flag in canton)
Canton: about 1/3 of the high
Triangle: 2 (blue):1 (yellow):4 (green):4 (white) (the exact position of the triangle in the flag I can't establish it). The yellow stripe does not show in the drawings now.
The white is bordered by a narrow green line (about 1/3 of the yellow stripe)
Jaume Ollé, 08 September 2014

I think Jaume refers to thisphoto (fromhttp://www.sknclt.com/ccm-government-signs-off-on-imf-land-for-debt-swap-agreement-on-nevis/)
or this one (fromhttp://article.wn.com) and obviously, well, surprise!, the white part is in fact not simply a triangle...
Olivier Touzeau, 08 September 2014

image by Željko Heimer, 13 February 2005

Depending on sources, the colour of the lower stripe of the triangle on the fly of the flag of Nevis is either blue or black.
Armand Noel du Payrat, 13 Sep. 1999

A 19th century flag

In Robert Southey�s �Life of Nelson� (first published 1813), chapter 2 we find that when Nelson was in command of the frigate �Boreas� in the West Indies (in 1785) he was concerned with the fact that numerous American ships were trading with the islands, which he considered was unlawful after American independence. �When the Boreas arrived at Nevis, she found four American vessels deeply laden, and what are called the island colours flying � white, with a red cross. They were ordered to hoist their proper flag, and depart within eight-and-forty hours�. The words �are called� rather than �were called� might suggest the flag was still in use in 1813.
Kenneth Fraser, 21 September 2019

Emblem

Nevis flag nevis.gif)image by Zoltan Horvath, 10 September 2024

Nevis Island Administration uses an emblem of its own, the Federation coat of arms is placed on a yellow-bordered white disc. The legend is �Nevis Island Administration�.
https://nia.gov.kn/
Zoltan Horvath, 10 September 2024