Alaska Flag
The history of Alaska flag is not that much old. The state adopted the current flag of Alaska in 1959 for official state use. A contest was sponsored for Alaska by the American Legion Department in which grade seven to twelve children had to take part. The reason for this contest is to get a design of a flag which represent the future state of Alaska. Rules of this contest spread throughout the Alaska in January, 1927. There were two stages of this competition. First stage was the competition held at the local level in which the local town judges would decide the best ten designs and send to Juneau where the final competition would take place.
From all the towns total 142 designs were sent to Juneau. In all these designs a number of ideas were presented which was refused by Flag Committee of Juneau. One third of the designs were based on the seal of territorial and many other designs were based on the polar bear. The winner of the contest was Aleut student of seventh grade, a 13 year old boy who a Native American named John Bell (Bennie) Benson from a village Chignik, who designed the Alaska state flag. He also won a 1000 dollar scholarship and a watch for designing the Alaska's flag in the flag designing contest.
Alaska came in the union of the America very late, as Alaska is the 49th number country which gained the position of statehood after so many states. The other name of Alaska is Last Frontier.
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The description of Alaska state flag is very simple. The flag of Alaska is made in the proportion of 125:177 that is unique proportion. The question that; what is the state flag of Alaska major colors so simply its blue and golden. There are eight golden color stars on the flag of Alaska. Out of eight stars the seven small grouped stars are drawn the left side of the flag and these seven stars are forming an Ursa Major or big dipper constellation. While the eighth one star is drawn at the upper right side of the flag of Alaska as a northern star depict the northern most state. The design of the present Alaska’s state flag i.e. eight gold stars in the field of blue is won for its simplicity, uniqueness and symbolism.
According to Alaska flag picture the blue field depicts the sea, sky and mountain lakes and wild flowers of Alaska. Forget Me Not is the State flower of Alaska. The mineral wealth of Alaska is depicted by the golden colors of stats. Ursa Major Constellation is also famous by the Great Bear, which depicts the strength of Alaska. The Constellation is pointing to the Polaris that is also famous as a north star that is the largest star in the sky of northern. This northern star is very helpful for the purpose of navigations. Also the northern star symbolize that the northern most state of United States is Alaska.
The state flag of Alaska clipart can be searched out on internet in the category of free clip art flag of Alaska. The printable Alaska’s flag pictures must be of premium quality. A picture of the Alaska flag with premium quality is available on internet with high resolution. The Alaska’s flag adopted as Alaska flag song in 1955 and Alaska territory became a state in 1959.
Another thing about the flag of Alaska is the Alaska flag song which was written by an employee of Education Department of Alaska named Marie Drake, she has given the Benny Benson’s sentiments, a poem structure in 1935.
