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The City and Borough of Juneau is a unified municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the Alaskan panhandle, and it has been the capital of Alaska since 1906. The municipality unified on July 1, 1970, when the city of Juneau merged with the city of Douglas and the surrounding Greater Juneau Borough to form the current municipality.
Text and image(s) from American City Flags, Raven 9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association, which retains copyright. Image(s) from American City Flags by permission of David B. Martucci.
The field of Juneau's flag is light blue. The central figure on
the flag is contained in a rectangle with a narrow darker blue outline
and rounded corners. On a field of 2 by 3 units, the rectangle is approximately
1.25 units high and 2.5 units wide. Occupying about the
first third of the space within the rectangle from the hoist is a green
silhouette of perhaps two mountain peaks or pine trees. The figure is
almost a pyramid with two points, the one on the hoist side slightly
lower than the other, the tip of which extends slightly beyond the top of
the rectangle. The top half of the remaining space within the rectangle
contains JUNEAU in large slender letters of the darker blue. Immediately
below this name is a medium-sized five-pointed gold star, outlined in the
darker blue and positioned directly between the "J" and the
"U". To the fly side of the star is ALASKA'S CAPITAL CITY in
much smaller letters of the same darker blue. Horizontally along the
bottom of the space, even with the base of the pine tree pyramid, is a
bar with a wavy top, again in the darker blue.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
Unknown.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
![[Juneau, Alaska]](../images/u/us-ak-juo-l.gif)
image by Rob Raeside, 31 July 2014
There appears to have been an earlier flag, about which little is known. The city hall personnel speculate that it may have been the flag of the city before it unified with the surrounding borough (county) on 1 July 1970, when Juneau became known as the City and Borough of Juneau. This flag has proportions of 4:7 and a gold field. In the canton is an Alaska state flag with a white border on its bottom and fly sides. This border is itself edged in red. Centered on the field between the canton and the fly is a circular emblem. Its center is a light blue disk with a black totem-like figure with two bird heads. The head turned toward the hoist is dark and may be an eagle; the head turned toward the fly is a white goose or duck with a yellow bill. Around the disk is a white ring on which JUNEAU appears arched across the top, and 1880, the date of Juneau's first settlement, below.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
![[City Seal]](../images/u/us-ak-ju).gif)
image located by Paul Bassinson, 17 April 2019
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Paul Bassinson, 17 April 2019
