You may think of Antarctica as a sheet of clean ice covered in pristine snow, largely untouched by humans. That’s how its flag—designed by vexillologist Graham Bartram for an atlas in the ...

The flag’s redesign draws on research including a 2022 study by Britain’s University of Canterbury, where every one of the 13 fresh snow samples that researchers collected from Antarctica ...

When Admiral Byrd and his team returned from Antarctica, Flag No. 98 was missing. If someone from the Explorers Club saw fit to ask the admiral about its whereabouts, no one wrote down his answer.