The claim: "Antarctica has had to update its flag" due to global climate change. Global climate change threatens the stability of large expanses of the Antarctic ice sheet such as the infamous ...

Geographic South Pole: Townsend photographed the True South flag alongside the US flag. Courtesy Lisa Minelli/True South Maldonado Base, Antarctica: The flag on display at Ecuador's Antarctic base.

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 ...

Though the flag flies in Antarctica, it has not been universally adopted, Townsend said. But, it has been recognized by several National Antarctic Programs, which represent countries that have ...

“Flags are maybe the best example of effective communication design there is,” says designer Evan Townsend. “I knew we could use a tool like that in Antarctica.” Despite having been the subject of ...

Later that year, the Ortas traveled to Antarctica to raise their “Antarctic Flag”—a kaleidoscopic flag combining the flags of all nations that represents the coexistence of all world identities.

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.

Notably, flags have been carried on Apollo 8, 11, 13 and 15 (miniature flags), as well as on ocean expeditions of intrepid figures such as Thor Heyderdahl and James Cameron. Honored in 2016 with ...

Why are flags flown at half-staff? The American flag flies at half-staff when the country or a state is in mourning, according to USA.gov. Flags can be ordered to fly at half-staff by the ...

The initial flag photo was the brainchild of Evan Townsend, a steward on the site. They wanted to show that even in as remote a place as Antarctica, you can find community.

Iran’s Navy commander announced in a televised broadcast last fall that the regime owns Antarctica and will build a military operation in the South Pole. “We have property rights in the South ...

The state flag of the Republic of Belarus was unfurled on 20 January 2024 by participants of the groundbreaking 16th Belarusian Antarctic expedition: Aleksei Gaidashov, Vitaly Khilko, Yegor Korzun.