# Flags of Oceania

This is a gallery of national and subnational flags of Oceania.

## Flags of Oceanian sovereign states

| Date | Use | Description |
| 1908 – | Flag of Australia See also: List of Australian flags | A British Blue Ensign defaced with the seven-point Commonwealth Star in the lower hoist quarter and the five stars of the Southern Cross in the fly half. |
| 1970 – | Flag of Fiji See also: List of Fijian flags | A cyan British Blue Ensign defaced with the shield of Fiji's Coat of Arms in the fly half. |
| 1979 – | Flag of Kiribati | A horizontal bicolour of red and blue with a gold frigatebird flying over the rising sun with seventeen rays centered on the upper half and three white wavy horizontal stripes on the lower half. |
| 1979 – | Flag of the Marshall Islands | A blue field with two diagonal stripes of orange and white radiating from the lower hoist-side corner to the upper fly-side corner and the large white star with four large rays and twenty small rays on the upper hoist-side corner above the stripes. |
| 1978 – | Flag of the Federated States of Micronesia | A light blue field with four white five-pointed stars arranged in the diamond pattern in the center. |
| 1968 – | Flag of Nauru See also: List of Nauruan flags | A blue field with the thin yellow narrow horizontal stripe across in the center and the large white twelve-pointed star on the bottom of the stripe and near the hoist-side. |
| 1902 – | Flag of New Zealand See also: List of New Zealand flags | A British Blue Ensign defaced with four stars of the Southern Cross in the fly half. |
| 1981 – | Flag of Palau See also: List of Palauan flags | A light blue field with a large yellow disk slightly leaning towards the hoist side. |
| 1971 – | Flag of Papua New Guinea See also: List of Papua New Guinean flags | Divided diagonally from the upper hoist-side corner to the lower fly-side corner: the upper triangle is red with the soaring Raggiana bird-of-paradise and the lower triangle is black with the Southern Cross of four white larger five-pointed stars and the smaller star. |
| 1962 – | Flag of Samoa See also: List of Samoan flags | A red field with the blue rectangle on the upper hoist-side quadrant bearing the Southern Cross of four white larger five-pointed stars and the smaller star in the center. |
| 1977 – | Flag of Solomon Islands | A thin, yellow stripe dividing diagonally from the lower hoist-side corner to the upper fly-side corner: the upper triangle is blue with five white five-pointed stars arranged in an X pattern and the lower triangle is green. |
| 1875 – | Flag of Tonga | A red field with the white rectangle on the upper hoist-side corner bearing the red Greek Cross in the centre. |
| 1997 – | Flag of Tuvalu | A cyan British Blue Ensign defaced with stars that represent the nine islands which comprise Tuvalu in the fly half. |
| 1980 – | Flag of Vanuatu See also: List of Vanuatuan flags | A horizontal bicolor of red and green with a golden pall, fimbriated in black, with a black chevron filling the lefthand space (alternately, a golden fillet pall surmounting a black gusset) and two gold crossed namele cycad fronds encircled in a gold boar tusk centered on the chevron. |

## Flags of Oceanian dependencies and other territories

| Date | Use | State (status) | Description |
| 1960 – | Flag of American Samoa | United States (unincorporated and unorganized territory) | A red-edged white triangle pointing towards the hoist charged with a bald eagle clutching a war club and a fly-whisk. The white triangle divides the dark blue field into two separate triangles. |
| 2002 – | Flag of Christmas Island | Australia (external territory) | Blue and green diagonal bicolour charged with a Southern Cross of four seven-pointed white stars and one smaller five-pointed white star on the blue half, a golden bosun bird in gold on the green half, and a gold circle in the centre containing the shape of the island in green |
| 2004 – | Flag of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands | Australia (external territory) | A green field with a palm tree on a gold disc in the canton, a gold crescent in the centre of the flag and a gold Southern Cross in the fly. |
| 2006 – | Flag of Easter Island | Chile (special territory) | A white flag with a red reimiro in the centre |
| 1984 – | Flag of French Polynesia | France (overseas country and collectivity) | Two red horizontal bands encase a wide white band in a 1:2:1 ratio, with the coat of arms centred on the white stripe |
| 1948 – | Flag of Guam | United States (unincorporated and organized territory) | A dark blue background with a thin red border and the Seal in the center. |
| 2010 – | Flags of New Caledonia | France (sui generis collectivity) | The flag of France is used for official purposes. |
| 1979 – | Flag of Norfolk Island | Australia (external territory) | Norfolk Island pine (Araucaria heterophylla) in a central white stripe between two vertical green stripes |
| 1948 – | Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands | United States (commonwealth) | A circle of flowers and plants with a gray latte stone and a white star on a blue field. |
| 1984 – | Flag of the Pitcairn Islands | United Kingdom (overseas territory) | A British Blue Ensign with the Pitcairn coat of arms defaced on the fly. |
| 2009 – | Flag of Tokelau | New Zealand (dependent territory) | A yellow Tokelauan canoe sailing towards the Southern Cross represented by four white stars on a blue field |
| 1976 – | Flag of Wake Island (unofficial) | United States (minor outlying island) | Horizontally divided between white and red, with a blue pentagon on the hoist, whereupon is found a map of the atoll and the words Wake Island in blue on a gold disc, which is surrounded by three gold stars. |
| 1794 – | Flags of Wallis and Futuna (unofficial) | France (overseas collectivity) | The Flag of France is used for official purposes. |

## Flags of Oceanian sub-divisions
### States of Australia

| Date | Use | Description |
| 1876–present | Flag of New South Wales | A St George's Cross with four gold stars and a lion in the fly of a British blue ensign. |
| 1876–present | Flag of Queensland | A light blue Maltese cross with a crown on a white roundel in the fly of a British blue ensign. |
| 1904–present | Flag of South Australia | A piping shrike on a gold roundel in the fly of a British blue ensign. |
| 1875–present | Flag of Tasmania | A red lion passant on a white roundel in the fly of a British blue ensign. |
| 1877–present | Flag of Victoria | The Southern Cross surmounted by a crown in the fly of a British blue ensign. |
| 1953–present | Flag of Western Australia | A black swan on a gold roundel in the fly of a British blue ensign. |

### Territories of Australia

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | 1993-present | Flag of the Australian Capital Territory | A vertical 1:2 bicolour of blue (charged with the Southern Cross) and gold (charged with a modified Coat of arms of the city of Canberra) |
| | 1978-present | Flag of the Northern Territory | A vertical 1:2 bicolour of black (charged with the Southern Cross) and ochre (charged with a stylised Sturt's Desert Rose) |

### Associated states of New Zealand

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | 1979 – | Flag of the Cook Islands | A British Blue Ensign, with a ring made of fifteen stars defaced on the fly. |
| | 1975 – | Flag of Niue | A golden yellow flag with the Union flag in the upper left (hoist) quarter of the flag. On the Union Jack are two yellow five-pointed stars on the vertical stripe and two on the horizontal stripe. In the centre of the Union flag is a blue disc with another, slightly larger, yellow five-pointed star. |

### Regions of New Zealand

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | 2004 – | Flag of Otago | A blue and yellow field divided by a horizontal zigzag, with eight-pointed stars on either side thereof. |

### Components of the Federated States of Micronesia

| Date | Use | Description |
| 1997-- | Flag of Chuuk | 38 white stars encircling a white coconut tree on a field of blue. |
| 1981-- | Flag of Kosrae | A white ceremonial fafa stone underneath four stars, flanked by wreaths, on a sky blue field. |
| 1992-- | Flag of Pohnpei | A circle of eleven white stars on a blue field surrounded by wreaths, with a coconut-shell cup underneath. |
| 1980-- | Flag of Yap | A white star encircled by a traditional canoe, itself inside a white ring, indicating a rai stone, all on a blue field. |

### Components of French Polynesia

| Date | Use | Description |
| 1837-- | Flag of the Gambier Islands | Divided horizontally into white, blue and white stripes, with five stars counterchanged. |
| 1975-- | Flag of the Tuamotu Archipelago | Three horizontal stripes of red, white, and red, and a vertical blue stripe on the hoist, with two rows of eight blue stars on the white stripe. |
| 2018-- | Flag of the Marquesas Islands | Divided horizontally into yellow and red, with a white triangle on the hoist, whereupon is found a matatiki. |
| | Flag of the Austral Islands | A red flag with an emblem consisting of a blue traditional pestle surrounded by five blue stars on a white Canadian pale. |

### States of the United States

| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
| | 1898 – | Flag of Hawaii | Eight alternating horizontal stripes of white, red, and blue, with the Union Jack in the canton. |

## Flags of Oceanian cities

Flags of cities with over 1 million inhabitants.
* Flag of Adelaide, South Australia
* Flag of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
* Flag of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
* Flag of Perth, Western Australia
* Flag of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

## Historical flags

| Date | Use | Description |
| 1901 –1903 | Flag of Australia | Six-pointed Commonwealth star and Delta Crucis. |
| 1903 –1908 | Flag of Australia | Seven-pointed Delta Crucis. |
| 1867 –1869 | Flag of the Kingdom of Bau | A horizontal tricolour of white, blue, and red, with a rising sun in the blue stripe and a crown in the canton. |
| 1893 –1901 | Flag of the Cook Islands Federation | A red-white-red tricolour with the Union Jack in the canton, in the center of which is a palm tree on a white disc. |
| 1973 –1979 | Flag of the Cook Islands | Green flag with a ring of fifteen gold stars in the fly. |
| 1865 –1867 | Flag of the Confederacy of Independent Kingdoms of Fiji | A white eight-pointed star on a blue field. |
| 1871 –1874 | Flag of the Kingdom of Fiji | A dove carrying a wreath in its beak on a red shield underneath a crown, all on a vertical bicolour of white and sky blue. |
| 1877 –1883 | Flag of the Colony of Fiji | British blue ensign defaced with the colonial badge in the fly. |
| 1883 –1903 | Flag of the Colony of Fiji | British blue ensign defaced with the colonial badge in the fly. |
| 1903 –1908 | Flag of the Colony of Fiji | British blue ensign defaced with the colonial badge on the fly. |
| 1908 –1924 | Flag of the Colony of Fiji | British blue ensign defaced with the Fijian coat of arms on a white roundel. |
| 1924 –1970 | Flag of the Colony of Fiji | British blue ensign defaced with the Fijian coat of arms. |
| 1869 –1871 | Flag of the Confederation of Lau | Divided horizontally between white and red, with a red Greek cross in the canton. |
| 1906 –1953 | Flag of the British New Hebrides | British blue ensign defaced with the colonial badge on the fly. |
| 1953 –1980 | Flag of the British New Hebrides | British blue ensign defaced with the colonial badge on the fly. |
| 1867 –1870 | Flag of the Colony of New South Wales | British blue ensign defaced with the letters "NSW" on the fly. |
| 1870 –1876 | Flag of the Colony of New South Wales | British blue ensign defaced with a Southern Cross surmounted by a Crown. |
| 1835 –1840 | Flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand | A St. George's cross with the canton consisting of a blue field, another St. George's cross with white fimbriation, and a white, eight-pointed star in each of the quarters. |
| 1870 –1876 | Flag of the Colony of Queensland | British blue ensign defaced with a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in the flag, labeled "QUEENSLAND" |
| 1858 –1888 | Flag of the Kingdom of Rarotonga | A red field with a white horizontal stripe, on which are three blue stars. |
| 1888 –1893 | Flag of the Kingdom of Rarotonga | A red field with a white horizontal stripe through the center and the Union Jack in the canton, and three blue stars in the fly. |
| 1906 –1947 | Flag of the British Solomon Islands | British blue ensign defaced with the colonial badge on the fly. |
| 1947 –1956 | Flag of the British Solomon Islands | British blue ensign defaced with the colonial badge on the fly. |
| 1956 –1966 | Flag of the British Solomon Islands | British blue ensign defaced with the colonial badge on the fly. |
| 1966 –1977 | Flag of the British Solomon Islands | British blue ensign defaced with the coat of arms of the Solomon Islands on the fly. |
| 1870 –1876 | Flag of the Colony of South Australia | British blue ensign defaced with the Southern Cross on a black roundel in the fly. |
| 1876 –1901 | Flag of the Colony of South Australia | British blue ensign defaced with an image of Britannia and an Aboriginal Australian man on a roundel on the fly. Remained in use as the state flag from 1901–1904. |
| 1875 | Flag of the Colony of Tasmania | British blue ensign with the Southern Cross in the fly and a white cross over all. |
| 1976 –1978 | Flag of the Colony of Tuvalu | British blue ensign defaced with the colonial badge on the fly. |
| 1978 –1995 | Flag of Tuvalu | Cyan British ensign with nine gold stars on the fly, representing the islands of Tuvalu. |
| October -December 1995 | Flag of Tuvalu | Cyan British ensign with eight gold stars on the fly. |
| 1995 –1997 | Flag of Tuvalu | Five uneven horizontal stripes of red, white, cyan, white and red again, over which are overlaid eight white stars. A white triangle radiates from the hoist, whereupon is found the coat of arms of Tuvalu. |
| 1870 –1877 | Flag of the Colony of Victoria | British blue ensign defaced with the Southern Cross on the fly. |
| 1877 | Flag of the Colony of Victoria | British blue ensign defaced with the Southern Cross on a blue shield surmounted by a Crown, all on a white roundel on the fly. |
| 1877 –1901 | Flag of the Colony of Victoria | British blue ensign defaced with a Southern Cross surmounted by a Crown on the fly. |
| 1870 –1901 | Flag of the Colony of Western Australia | British blue ensign defaced with a right-facing black swan on a gold roundel. Remained in use as the state flag from 1901–1953. |