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2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 January 2008
based on image from www.muni.org
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Anchorage is a unified home rule municipality in Alaska and Alaska's most populous city.
The Municipality of Anchorage comprises the City of Anchorage + Greater
Anchorage Area Borough + Chugiak-Eagle River Borough.
Dave Fowler,
17 April 2019
Text and image(s) from American City Flags, Raven 9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association, which retains copyright. Image(s) from American City Flags by permission of David B. Martucci.
The flag of Anchorage has a gold field of 6 units by 9, with
the municipal seal in the center, 3.5 units in diameter. The field of the
seal is white. In its center, and extending nearly to its inner
circumference, is a blue anchor with its tangs curving upwards halfway
along each side of the seal, ending in barbed inward-facing points. The
anchor overlays an 18th-century sailing ship in yellow under full sail
toward the hoist. A wavy yellow line below the ship suggests the ocean.
In the upper left above the ship's prow is a small rayless yellow sun.
Above the ship's stern, in blue, is a modern airplane, flying toward the
hoist. Two narrow blue concentric circles set closely together enclose
the seal. Curved and centered above the outer edge of the seal is
ANCHORAGE, curved and centered below is ALASKA, all in small
blue letters.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
Unknown.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
The ship is likely the HMS Resolution, a British ship under the control of the famous Captain James Cook on his final voyage of exploration in the Pacific. The city of Anchorage gets its name because Captain Cook anchored adjacent to where the city center is now located. He wrote "anchorage" on his maps. It is a very interesting story (which I won't include here), and explains many of the unusual geographic names in the area.
Michael Wilson, 17 May 2004
The city flag is reported in use in and after July 26, 2005, half-staffed as a sign of mourning for slain denizens: "City flags flew at half-staff last week" at www.muni.org/MayorNews/MTP20050801.cfm and "City flags lowered" at www.muni.org/Mayor/press_release_20050726.cfm.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 January 2008
Having lived in Anchorage, I can tell you that it was in use at least as early as 1980, and probably dating to the incorporation of the municipality in the 1970s.
David C. Fowler, 26 January 2008
image by Randy Young, 22 March 2020
Flag is a white patch on a black field:
https://www.instagram.com/
Patch:
https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net
Paul Bassinson, 22 March
2020
image located by Paul Bassinson, 17 April 2019
Source:
https://www.adn.com/resizer/.../Assembly-Anchorage-City-Seal.jpg
Paul Bassinson, 17 April 2019
image by Randy Young, 18 May 2016
Providence Alaska Medical Center is the largest hospital in the state of Alaska. Located in Anchorage, the hospital and its supporting health system are the second-largest employer in the state.
According to photographs online, Providence Alaska Medical Center flies a flag that combines the hospital's corporate logo with the Donate Life logo and inscription. The flag features a white field. In the top half is the hospital's corporate logo. Toward the fly is a Christian cross, colored dark blue on top and gold on the bottom, with the name of the hospital extending off toward the fly from the cross. The bottom half of the flag represents Donate Life, with the Donate Life logo toward the fly and the motto of "Honoring Organ & Tissue
Donors" extending toward the fly.
The photographs can be seen at
www.saratogaflag.com
(image: www.saratogaflag.com) and www.lifealaska.org
(image: www.lifealaska.org)
Randy Young, 18 May 2016