Although the flags of most of the world’s countries have a rectangular form with distinctive colors or symbols, there are three examples that buck the trend. Three iconoclastic flags that ...
Most of the 30 or so vessels hoisting the Falklands’ flag — a British red ensign with a coat-of-arms featuring a ram and tussock grass — belongs to Spanish fishing companies.
14 August is Falklands Day and commemorates the first sighting of the Falkland Islands on that day in 1592 by the English navigator and explorer, John Davis, on board his 120 ton vessel 'Desire'.