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SILVER FERN FLAG

OFFICIAL ALTERNATIVE NEW ZEALAND FLAG
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OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION

©Copyright Kyle Lockwood 2000-2016  (©Crown Copyright 1 Sep 2015-31 Mar 2016)  

​DESIGNER'S DESCRIPTION
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The silver fern is a New Zealand icon which has been proudly worn by generations for over 160 years. The multiple points of the fern leaf represent Aotearoa’s peaceful, multicultural society, a single fern spreading upwards represents one people growing onward into the future.
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The bright blue represents our clear skies and the Pacific Ocean, black the strength of our nation, white represents peace, and red represents our shared Māori and European heritage. The Southern Cross guided early settlers to our islands and represents our location in the South Pacific.
OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT DESCRIPTION 
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The dominant feature of this flag is a white fern frond that sweeps up diagonally from the bottom left corner to the right of the top centre. The left side of the fern is sitting on a black background. To the right of the fern there are four stars in the formation of the Southern Cross constellation, sitting on a blue background. Each star is red with a white border, and has five points. 
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ACCOLADES

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This is the Silver Fern Flag, voted by the people of New Zealand in the world's first-ever national flag referendum as the official Preferred Alternative New Zealand Flag.

Black is one of New Zealand's most well known national colours. Black has been a gazetted official NZ colour since 1975, along with red and white, and the colour blue features on our official coat of arms and of course our present flag which was made official in 1902.
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The bright blue, representing the pacific, and our clear skies, along with the traditional NZ southern cross in red, gives this proposed national flag the required vibrancy, that a silver fern on an entirely black background can not achieve, and by incorporating the southern cross, and colours from our present flag, the design also honours our history.

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s t o r e
  • Winner National Business Review ^Poll March 2016 
  • NZer of the Year Richie McCaw's preferred flag 2016
  • Daniel Carter's preferred flag Feb 2016
  • Top Olympian Ian Fergusson's Preferred Flag 2016
  • Winner RadioLive ^Poll January 2016
  • Winner Polar ^Poll January 2016
  • Winner Fairfax ^Poll 22 December 2015
  • Winner First NZ Flag Referendum 2015
  • Winner Horizon Poll December 2015 
  • Winner UMR Research Poll November 2015
  • Winner 'Children's Flag Referendum' Nov 2015 
  • Winner Fairfax Media Poll November 2015
  • Sir Richard Hadlee's Preferred NZ Flag 2015 
  • Winner UMR Research Poll October 2015
  • Sir Peter Snell's Preferred NZ Flag 2015 
  • Winner Kiwiblog Flag Poll* Oct 2015 
  • Winner Aardwolf Research Flag Poll* Oct 2015 
  • Winner NZ Herald Poll September 2015
  • Winner TV3 Poll September 2015 
  • Winner Sydney Morning Herald Poll Sept 2015 
  • Winner UMR Research Poll September 2015
  • Mahe Drysdale's Preferred NZ Flag 2015 
  • Winner Radio Live Poll August 2015 
  • Winner Reddit Poll August 2015
  • Winner NZ Herald Poll August 2015 
  • Dame Catherine Tizard's Preferred NZ Flag 2015
  • Winner Bay of Plenty Times Poll July 2015 
  • Winner NZ Herald Poll July 2015 
  • Winner The Nation TV3 News Poll July 2015 
  • Winner NZ Herald Poll June 2015 
  • > Winner Aardwolf Research Flag Poll June 2015 
  • Winner Fairfax Media Poll May 2015
  • Winner People's Choice Award 'Flag It!' Rawene 2014
  • Winner One News Poll 2014
  • Winner Whale Oil Poll 2014
  • Former PM John Key’s Preferred NZ Flag 2014 - 2016
  • Winner of Change the NZ Flag poll 2011
  • Winner of Pataka Museum & Gallery Flag Poll 2007
  • Winner of TV3 Campbell Live Flag Poll 2005
  • Winner of Hutt News Flag Design Competition 2004
         *Leading official alternative            ^ Leading the existing flag 
              > All Polls taken since June 2015 have featured the Black White and Blue variant as the                                         winning flag, polls before that time had the Red White and Blue variant as winner.
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Silver Fern Flag is a division of Architecture Ltd incorporated in NZ in 2006
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