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image located by Jason Saber, 14 November 2019
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For North Uist please see the attached images of the four finalists in each
competition.
Jason Saber, 14 November 2019
The info was also posted at the British County Flags blog:
https://britishcountyflags.com/2017/07/01/a-flag-for-north-uist/ and larger
photos can be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157891182465809&set=p.10157891182465809&type=3
and here
https://twitter.com/vexiupdate/status/1176496509644226560
Proposals
A and B are clearly derived from some of the designs currently presented for the
proposed flag of North Uist but modified in a meaningful and original way.
Tomislav Todorovic, 14 November 2019
![[Tentative Flag of North Uist]](../images/g/gb-s-nui.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 24 March 2018
Based on
https://web.archive.org
A new proposal for the island flag is presented at
the British County Flags blog. It is derived from the
flag of South Uist by reversing blue and green
colors. Image above of described flag is derived from the SVG image of the flag
of South Uist from
Wikimedia Commons.
Tomislav Todorovic, 12 July 2017
![[Tentative Flag of North Uist]](../images/g/gb-s-nui2.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 16 February 2017
This design appears at the Italian website History Portal (/Portale Storia/): http://www.portalestoria.net/GRAN%20BRETAGNA%20SCOZIA.htm horizontally divided gold-white-red with a blue vertical stripe at the hoist and a black castle in center of white field; the castle has two towers and in central part between these, there are three rows of windows (4, 3 and 4) depicted in gray. For this flag, unlike that of Harris (see above), no source was given by the site author.
![[Tentative Flag of North Uist]](../images/g/gb-s-nui3.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 16 February 2017
A variant of this
design appears at the Flags of the Earth website:
http://www.ecka.de/flaggen/UNIT_KIN/ENGSUB.HTM with narrower white and blue
stripes and different shades of all colors, even with white appearing grayish;
most of these differences must be errors, for they also appear in other flags
shown at the page. The castle also has different shape, the biggest difference
being in windows, which are white and there are four of them in each of three
rows.
Tomislav Todorovic, 16 February 2017
![[Tentative Flag of North Uist]](../images/g/gb-s-nui4.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 24 March 2018
Another variant of this
proposal recently appeared at the British County Flags blog:
https://britishcountyflags.com/2017/07/01/a-flag-for-north-uist/. It adds a
white star to the canton, which is borrowed from another proposal - the blue
flag with a large white star (below).
Tomislav Todorovic, 24 March 2018
(probable Internet fabrication)
![[Tentative Flag of North Uist]](../images/g/gb-s-nui1.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 16 February 2017
This flag of North Uist is described in a discussion about the source of the flag of Lewis as being blue, charged with a large white star. The information is said to have originated from the Virtual Hebrides website and its message board, from about 1997. A Wikipedia discussion about the removed content of the North Uist page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ANorth_Uist displays an image of the flag, with a dark shade of blue and the star set near the hoist. However, the source cited is a FOTW mirror site which was closed down several years ago and this flag seems to have never been presented there with an image. [For my part, I cannot remember having ever seen it at the FOTW website or any of its mirrors.] Still the design does match the known description.
![[Tentative Flag of North Uist]](../images/g/gb-s-nui1a.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 7 March 2019
The image at
https://web.archive.org/web/20041228020337/http://www.globalguide.org/index.phtml?id=44472
differs from the one presented at Wikipedia - the star is larger and centered.
Whether that is the only correct source, or the Wikipedia contributor did access
some other source, might be impossible to tell.
Tomislav Todorovic, 7
March 2019
Most of these flags appear to be Internet fabrications.
Competitions for the flags of Eriskay, Benbecula and North Uist (Western
Isles, Scotland) have just started and will be open until 7th June. The Flag
Institute is actively participating.
Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-48227292
https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/2019/05/3-hebridean-flag-competitions/
Tomislav Todorovic, 15 May 2019
