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Flag of the governor-general.. The flag of the West Indies Federation was used between 1958 and 1962. It bore four equally spaced narrow white stripes with a large orange-gold circle over the middle two lines in the center of the flag, undulating horizontally across a blue field representing the Caribbean Sea and the sun shining upon the waves.
Flag of the North West Company: The pre-1801 Red Ensign defaced with the initials of the company. c. 1801 –1821: Flag of the North West Company: A Red Ensign defaced with the initials of the company. 1889–1961: Flag of the British South Africa Company: A Union Jack with the logo of the British South Africa Company in the middle. 1889–1961
British West Indies in 1900 BWI in red and pink (blue islands are other territories with English as an official language). The British West Indies (BWI) were the territories in the West Indies under British rule, including Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada ...
The Caribbean with West Indies Federation members in red. The short-lived federation was made up of British West Indies colonies from 1958–62.. Between 1958 and 1962, there was a short-lived federation between several English-speaking Caribbean countries, called the West Indies Federation, which consisted of all the island nations (except the Bahamas), and the territories (excluding Bermuda ...
The Danish West Indies became an insular area of the U.S., called the United States Virgin Islands. Between 1958 and 1962, the United Kingdom re-organised all their West Indies island territories (except the British Virgin Islands and the Bahamas) into the West Indies Federation. They hoped that the Federation would coalesce into a single ...
The Federation of the West Indies was not the first attempt at a British Caribbean federation. The history of the previous attempts at federations and unions, in part, explains the failure of the 1958 Federation. The initial federal attempts never went so far as to try to encompass all of the British West Indies (BWI), but were more regional in ...
Reverted to version as of 11:04, 18 June 2022 (UTC) Its from a British government guide on national flags from the time when the federation existed 14:00, 1 August 2022 632 × 316 (1 KB)
Flag of the British Leeward Islands: 1952–1958: Flag of the British Leeward Islands: 1958–1962: Flag of the West Indies Federation: A blue field with four white horizontal wavy bars (the top pair of bars being parallel and the lower pair also parallel) and an orange sun in the centre. 1958–1967: Flag of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla: 1967