The claim: "Antarctica has had to update its flag" due to global climate change. Global climate change threatens the stability of large expanses of the Antarctic ice sheet such as the infamous ...

Maldonado Base, Antarctica: The flag on display at Ecuador's Antarctic base. Courtesy Evan Townsend/True South Baker's dozen: Here, the True South flag flies alongside the flags of the 12 ...

You may think of Antarctica as a sheet of clean ice covered in pristine snow, largely untouched by humans. That’s how its flag—designed by vexillologist Graham Bartram for an atlas in the ...

“Flags are maybe the best example of effective communication design there is,” says designer Evan Townsend. “I knew we could use a tool like that in Antarctica.” Despite having been the subject of ...

Because Antarctica has no government or permanent population, it cannot select a flag to represent itself. Many flags have been proposed, but a light blue flag with a white outline of the ...

Antarctica, however, doesn’t have an official flag as it is not a sovereign nation. A lot has since changed on the frozen continent, according to Bartram, a vexillologist — an expert in the ...

Notably, flags have been carried on Apollo 8, 11, 13 and 15 (miniature flags), as well as on ocean expeditions of intrepid figures such as Thor Heyderdahl and James Cameron. Honored in 2016 with ...

At the same time, I proudly planted my proverbial flag in the windiest, driest, highest and — by far — coldest continent on Earth. Indeed, a trip to Antarctica is so much more rewarding than a ...

“Flags are maybe the best example of effective communication design there is,” says designer Evan Townsend. “I knew we could use a tool like that in Antarctica.” Despite having been the subject of ...