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[[Image:Flag of the Falkland Islands.svg|right|thumb|250x125px|[[Image:FIAV_110010.svg|23px]] Flag of the Falkland Islands, 1999–present. Flag ratio: 1:2]]
The '''flag of the [[Falkland Islands]]''' was adopted on [[September 29]], [[1948]]. It is a [[Blue Ensign]] with the [[Union Flag]] in the canton and the [[Coat of Arms of the Falkland Islands]] superimposed.
The Falkland Island Dependencies had their own flag, what is now the [[Flag of the British Antarctic Territory]], and did not use the Falkland Islands flag. However, when the [[British Antarctic Territory]] was created in 1963, the islands of [[South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands]] remained dependencies of the Falkland Islands, and reverted to using the Falkands flag until [[1985]] when they became a separate [[British overseas territories|overseas territory]], and gained their own flag.
[[Image:Flag of the Falkland Islands (1948-1999).svg|right|thumb|125px|[[Image:FIAV_110010.svg|23px]] Old flag of the Falkland Islands, 1948–1999.]]
During the [[Falklands War]], when [[Argentina]] occupied the islands, the flag was banned and in its place the [[Flag of Argentina|Argentine Republic's flag]] was raised. Currently, Argentina maintains that the islands are part of the [[Tierra del Fuego Province (Argentina)|Tierra del Fuego Province]] and considers the province's flag to be the islands' flag, although it has never been flown on them.
A [[Red Ensign]] with the Falklands coat of arms superimposed was adopted in [[1998]] and is used as the Islands' [[civil ensign]]. Previously the plain red ensign was used by ships in the territorial waters around the Falklands.
The [[Governor of the Falkland Islands]] uses a [[Union Flag]] defaced with the coat of arms.
==See also==
* [[List of British flags]]
* [[List of Falkland Island flags]]
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