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image by Zoltan Horvath, 27 September 2024
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The official gazette "Publicatieblad van de Nederlandse Antillen #80"
published the following text:
"P.B. 2010, no. 80 XVIII Besluit van 24 september 2010 tot afkondiging van het
besluit van 20 september 2010, no. 10.002581, houdende verlening van een
onderscheidingsvlag aan de Gouverneur van het land Sint Maarten.
"Een rechthoekige vlag, waarvan de lengte zich verhoudt tot de hoogte als 3:2,
met aan de boven- en onderzijde aansluitend een rode, een witte en een blauwe
baan in de kleuren van de Nederlandse vlag, elk met een breedte gelijk aan één
twaalfde (1/12) van die van de vlag. De bovenste en onderste drie banen zijn van
elkaar gescheiden door een witte baan, waarop in het midden een cirkelvormig
vlak met een doorsnede van vijf twaalfde (5/12) van de hoogte van de vlag is
aangebracht. Het cirkelvormig vlak is azuurblauw, oranje omzoomd en beladen met
een wit gerechtsgebouw. De kleuren in het cirkelvormige vlak zijn uitgevoerd in
de kleuren van het wapen van Sint Maarten."
The
images we see on the pages of
Dutch-Wikipedia. (credits by former FotWer Mark Sensen alias "Sensini")
Jens Pattke, 23 January 2011
P.B. 2010, no. 80 XVIII Decision of 24 September 2010 to the proclamation of
the decision of 20 September 2010, no, 10.002581, containing conferment of a
distinguishing flag to the Governor of the Country Sint Maarten.
"A rectangular flag, of which the length is to the height as 3:2, with at the
upper and lower edges adjacent a red, a white and a blue stripe in the colours
of the Dutch flag, each with a width equal to one twelfth
(1/12) of that of the flag. The upper and lower three stripes are separated from
each other by a white stripe, whereupon in the centre a circular field has been
placed with a diameter of five twelfth (5/12) of the height of the flag.
The circular field is azure blue, fringed orange and charged with a white
courthouse. The colours of the circular field are implemented with the colours
of the arms of Sint Maarten."
Note that this description most likely gives the wrong impression. Rather than
twice three separate stripes, with the order suggesting the red stripes are
along both edges, there probably are two stripes of red over white over blue,
with those two stripes running along the edges. Mark's illustration shows the
latter.
Image is really seen at at
Wikimedia Commons, it is available under GFDL and CC-BY-SA licenses, both of
which will require us to state that license on any derived work.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 4 March 2011
In order to avoid any further licensing problem, I completely redrawn this
flag based on this article and image at page of Governor of Sint Maarten:
http://www.kabgsxm.com/governor-flag.aspx?language=EN (It could be
considered as a quite official source.)
Zoltan Horvath, 03 January 2012
In the Netherlands the official source of the coats of arms and flags is the
Hoge Raad van Adel. See pls.http://www.hogeraadvanadel.nl/HRvA_jaarverslag_2010.pdf
In Yearbook 2010 all flags and coats of arms of Curaçao, Sint Maartens and Dutch
Caribbean communes are published. In the Sint Maartens flag, the disc is dark
blue.
Jens Pattke, 03 January 2012
In The Netherlands, the official sources of the coats of arms and flags are
the decisions of the entities adopting them. The Hoge Raad van Adel formulates
advice on such issues, and such advice is almost always followed, but it can not
formally validate arms or flags, and it's documentation has no official
standing.
Though it appears to be so at first view, closer viewing shows it to be of a
lighter shade of blue than the blue of the Dutch edges.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 03 January 2012
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image by Zoltan Horvath, 27 September 2024
The coat of arms of Sint Maarten, adopted on 7 November 1982, consists of a
shield with a rising sun and the motto. The shield displays the courthouse in
the center, the border monument to the right, the orange-yellow sage (which is
the national flower) to the left. The orange border refers to the Dutch royal
house. Flying in front of the rising sun is the brown pelican, which is the
national bird of Sint Maarten. Under the shield is a ribbon with the Latin
motto: “Semper pro grediens” (Always progressing).
Image illustrated in
following sources:
The Government website:
https://www.sintmaartengov.org/Pages/default.aspx
The Department of
Foreign Relations of Sint Maarten:
https://www.facebook.com/photo
Zoltan Horvath, 27 September 2024
