The flag of

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island of Sint Eustatius (Statia) consists of a blue field, red fimbriations, and in the center, a white diamond with a silhouette of the island. The flag was designed by Zuwena Suares and adopted on 29 July 2004Eilandsverordening, houdende regelen betreffende de vlag van het eilandgebied St. Eustatius
at the Officiële Bekendmakingen Repository. Retrieved 30 July 2022. to be put into use on 16 November of that year (

Statia Day Statia Day is a national holiday celebrated in the Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius, a Caribbean Netherlands, special municipality of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It celebrates the Sint Eustatius#"First Salute", "First Salute", when Sint Eust ...

). Since 2010, it has been the official flag of the special municipality of

Sint Eustatius Sint Eustatius (, ), also known locally as Statia (), is an island in the Caribbean. It is a special municipality (officially "public body") of the Netherlands. The island lies in the northern Leeward Islands portion of the West Indies, sout ...

Description

The flag is rectangular with the colors blue, red, white, gold and green, and divided in four five-sided blue polygons, each fimbriated red.John van Kerkhof
"Commissie van Wijzen gaat Sint-Eustatius doorlichten."
''Knipselkrant Curaçao''. 12 March 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2022. ''"Vlag Nederland en St. Eustatius."''
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In its center is a

diamond Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon at room temperature and pressure, b ...

-form white field; in the diamond is the

silhouette A silhouette ( , ) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the silhou ...

of the island in green. In the center in the top of the diamond is a five-pointed golden/yellow star. The colours of the flag each have their own meaning. The gold star represents unity, the four blue polygons represent the ocean that surrounds St. Eustasius, the Green shows the

Quill A quill is a writing tool made from a moulted flight feather (preferably a primary wing-feather) of a large bird. Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen, the metal- nibbed pen, the fountain pen, and, eve ...

, the red represents the ''

Delonix regia ''Delonix regia'' is a species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae native to Madagascar. It is noted for its fern-like leaves and flamboyant display of orange-red flowers over summer. In many tropical par ...

'', a flamboyant tree which was used by slaves to celebrate

Emancipation Day Emancipation Day is observed in many former European colonies in the Caribbean and areas of the United States on various dates to commemorate the emancipation of slaves of African descent. On August 1, 1985, Trinidad and Tobago became the fir ...

, the white diamond in the center represents a once diamond water fall which is referred to in the national anthem, " Golden Rock".

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Flags of the Netherlands Antilles

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