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Flag of Alaska
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Image:Flag of Alaska.svg thumb|right|Flag of Alaska|The flag of Alaska
The '''
flag of
Alaska''' consists of eight gold stars, forming the
Big Dipper and the
North Star, on a dark blue field. It was designed in
1927 by
Benny Benson, a 13-year-old
Alaska Native residing in
Seward, Alaska Seward, for a contest to create a flag for the then-
Alaska Territory. Benson's design, one of 142 entries submitted by Alaskan schoolchildren in grades 7–12, noted:
"The blue field is for the Alaska sky and the forget-me-not, an Alaskan flower. The Polaris North Star is for the future state of Alaska, the most northerly in the union. The Big Dipper Dipper is for the Ursa Major Great Bear—symbolizing strenth ''(sic)''."
The design was chosen unanimously and adopted as the territorial flag that year, and became the state flag upon
Alaska Statehood Act statehood in
1959.
The flag's symbolism is also described in the state song, "
Alaska's Flag".
External link
-
Catalog of the "Eight Stars" exhibit at the
Alaska State Museum, in
PDF format; requires
Adobe Acrobat Adobe Reader
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