Back Flagge Guernseys#Flaggen der Inseln German Bandera de Sark Spanish پرچم سارک Persian Drapeau de Sercq French Bandeira de Sark Galician דגל סרק HE Bandiera di Sark Italian サーク島の旗 Japanese Знаме на Сарк Macedonian Vlag van Sark Dutch
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| Use | Flag of Sark[1][2] |
|---|---|
| Proportion | 3:5 |
| Adopted | 1938 (as Seigneur's flag) 2020 (as Sark's flag) |
| Design | Argent, a Cross Gules, in the Canton two Lions passant guardant Or |
The flag of Sark is white with a red St. George's cross and a red canton containing the two yellow lions (or in heraldic terms "leopards") from the flag of Normandy. The original flag was first created in 1938 by Herbert Pitt as a personal flag for the Dame of Sark and the flag was later officially granted to the island in 2020.[3]
Before its official grant, the flag of Sark showed the two lions protruding outside the canton and overflowing the red cross.[4] It was designed by Herbert Pitt in 1938 and adopted the same year as the personal standard of the Seigneur of Sark before unofficially becoming the island's flag in 1987.[5]
- ^ "Recent Grants of Arms". College of Arms. Official registers of coats of arms and pedigrees. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
- ^ "January 2023 Newsletter (no. 70)". College of Arms. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ College of Arms (January 2023). "Recent Grants of Arms". January 2023 Newsletter (no. 70).
- ^ Flag Institute & Flags and Heraldry Commtitee (2020). Flying Flags in the United Kingdom (PDF). p. 10.
- ^ "Bailiwick of Guernsey, Channel Islands". Retrieved 15 April 2008.
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