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image by Antonio Martins, 25 January 2006
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The flag of Aasiaat (previously knowm as Egedesminde) is white
and charged with the municipal Coat of Arms as
seen at photo at <www.nunaportalen.gl> (defunct).
Dov Gutterman, 9 July 2004
Aasiaat is the smallest (area-wise) greenlandic municipality.
I found a photo at <iserit.greennet.gl/aasmuseum>:
either the same or a different one, it does show a building with
two flag poles - one with the Greenland flag and the other, wind
limp, mostely white with something; the file name seems to imply
Aasiaat...
Antonio Martins, 9 July 2004 and 15 October 2005
I recently researched municipal flags in Greenland by
correspondence with municipal authorities in Greenland. The
results have just been published in the Fall 2005 issue of
Nordisk Flaggkontakt, the journal of the Nordic Flag Society [joe05].
I managed to get confirmation from 15 of 18 municipalities all
using the same flag model - the coat of arms on a white field
(the colour white carries no symbolism). Aasiaat is one
of them.
Jan Oskar Engene, 24 October 2005
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image by Antonio Martins, 10 January 2006
According to <www.ngw.nl>,
quoting from Aachen's 1982 book [ach82]
, The arms were granted in 1969, making it the oldest arms in
Greenland. The name "Aasiaat" means "the
spiders", making the arms canting. The division of the
shield symbolises the fact that the municipality is in the middle
of Greenland, with the ice masses of the Disko Bay in the North
and the ice-free waters in the South. The name
"Aasiaat" actually is a wrong name, the original Inuit
name being "Asiaat". Furthermore, the only spiders that
live in that part of Greenland do not make webs. Explanation of
the shield's division: per fess white over blue standing for this
municipality's location, between the ice masses to the North and
the ice-free sea water to the South.
Antonio Martins, 9 July 2004 and 15 October 2005
