British Fiji Islands 1924-1970 (Fiji)

Last modified: 2009-01-31 by ian macdonald
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1:2 image by Clay Moss, 10 December 2008
Flag adopted 1924 (coat-of-arms adopted 4th July 1908), abolished 1970

• Description
• Blue ensign with disk
• Red ensign
• Colonial Fiji Union flag
• Detail of coat of arms

See also:

• British Fiji Islands 1874-1970
• Historical Flags (Fiji)

Description

A letter dated 8th May 1924 informed the Colonial Office that instructions to remove the white circle had been issued by the governor. (ADM 116/1847B). Admiralty Flag Book 1930 [hms30], plate 35; under Fiji, notes that there is no white circle.
David Prothero, 22 December 1999 and 24 October 2002

Blue ensign with disk

image by Clay Moss, 10 December 2008

I am not persuaded that the Fiji blue ensign, badge without disk ever really caught on from a popularity standpoint. It may have existed on paper, but I believe that the badge on disk version was used regularly right up to independence. I once saw a yacht in Hawaii was flying both the blue and red ensign and both had badges on the disk. And, the only other colonial Fiji ensigns I saw around independence time had disks as well. They were not old ensigns at the time. They were new.
Clay Moss, 10 December 2008

Red ensign

image by Clay Moss, 10 December 2008

Colonial Fiji Union flag

image by Clay Moss, 17 December 2008

Detail of coat of arms

image by Clay Moss, 10 December 2008