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Jos Poels sent me an URL with
a photo with the flag of Rodrigues (or at least, it looks like a flag).
Mark Sensen, 20 Apr 2004
This flag is white with the coat of arms in the center (I seem to
recall having seen a border around the flag).
Pascal Gross, 15 Oct 2004
The flag of Rodrigues Island (dependency of Mauritius) was created for
the autonomy of the island. The scroll on the coat of arms reads "Travail,
Solidarité, Fierté" (Labour, Solidarity, Pride). According to the
Rodrigues Regional
Assembly website, this motto is a testimony of the pride of the Rodriguan
people to live in an autonomous island and their determination to construct
the country’s destiny in harmony and solidarity for the welfare of
everyone within the Republic of Mauritius.
Pascal Gross, 17 Mar 2006
On the Coat of Arms are shown Le Solitaire and La Fauvette
birds, products of Rodrigues namely maize, fish and basketry with the sea and
sun in the background crowned by the hibiscus flower.
Jens Pattke, 04 Jan 2005,
quoting from
the
Mauritius Post website
The solitaire (litt. , lonesome) was a big bird endemic in the
Mascarenas islands. It was exterminated in the XVIIIth century.
A fauvette is a warbler, but there are several species of this bird
all over the world.
Ivan Sache, 04 Jan 2005
The postal authorities of Mauritius have issued in October 2004 a set of
stamps about Rodrigues. One of these stamps features the new coat of arms of
Rodrigues (see 4th stamp on the
first day cover under the title "Annual stamps issue").
Pascal Gross, 15 Oct 2004
Stamp also here.
Jens Pattke, 16 Oct 2004
Rodrigues Island is an integral part of the Mauritian territory.
Since the days of colonization it was administered from Mauritius.
Recognising the specificities of Rodrigues and the need to decentralize
the National Assembly voted unanimously on 20 November 2001 the Acts
which granted autonomy to the island.
Jens Pattke, 04 Jan 2005,
quoting from the
Rodrigues Regional Assembly website
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