CIRCA - 1985 🇬🇱 - 2 equal horizontal bands; white over red, with large 1/2 red - 1/2 white disk, offset hoist-side, within the respective contrasting bands

HISTORY: The Erfalasorput, (simply "our flag") was chosen from a nationwide competition, and

adopted, coinciding with the island's National Day 1985, to mark greater autonomy from

Denmark following the 1979 Home Rule Act.

VEXILLOLOGY:* The red & white motif are a nod to Denmark's flag🔍, (as an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm)

while the intentional absence of Nordic Cross ╋━ distinguishes it from all other Pan-Nordic🔍 flags, emphasizing Inuit identity

& Arctic🔍 cultural heritage over European heraldic conventions;

• The RED of the off-center CIRCLE ◓ represents the midnight ☀️ sun, low on the summer solstice horizon against the...

• The WHITE Band symbolic of perpetual daylight of summer over the extensive ice cap & snow ❄️ covered landscape.

• The mirroringWHITE of the off-center CIRCLE ◓ is meant to be the moon 🌒rising over the polar environment, &

• The RED Band evokes the sky with sun's glow on the horizon (as well as flame 🔥.)

* The STUDY of FLAGS; their history, symbolism, usage, and design. From Latin vexillum - referring to a Roman military standard / flag (from velum= cloth/ covering/sail/curtain

[PIE🔍 root weg = to weave / to cover]) + Greek suffix -logia = study]