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North Uist, Scotland

Uibhist a Tuath

Flag competition
Description of a proposed flag
History Portal proposal
British County Flags variant
Other proposals

Flag competition

image located by Jason Saber, 14 November 2019
[Click on image for larger version]

For North Uist please see the attached images of the four finalists in each competition.
Jason Saber, 14 November 2019

The info was also posted at the British County Flags blog: https://britishcountyflags.com/2017/07/01/a-flag-for-north-uist/ and larger photos can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157891182465809&set=p.10157891182465809&type=3
and here https://twitter.com/vexiupdate/status/1176496509644226560

Proposals A and B are clearly derived from some of the designs currently presented for the proposed flag of North Uist but modified in a meaningful and original way.
Tomislav Todorovic, 14 November 2019

Description of a proposed flag

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 24 March 2018
Based on https://web.archive.org

A new proposal for the island flag is presented at the British County Flags blog. It is derived from the flag of South Uist by reversing blue and green colors. Image above of described flag is derived from the SVG image of the flag of South Uist from Wikimedia Commons.
Tomislav Todorovic, 12 July 2017

History Portal proposal

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 16 February 2017

This design appears at the Italian website History Portal (/Portale Storia/): http://www.portalestoria.net/GRAN%20BRETAGNA%20SCOZIA.htm horizontally divided gold-white-red with a blue vertical stripe at the hoist and a black castle in center of white field; the castle has two towers and in central part between these, there are three rows of windows (4, 3 and 4) depicted in gray. For this flag, unlike that of Harris (see above), no source was given by the site author.

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 16 February 2017

A variant of this design appears at the Flags of the Earth website: http://www.ecka.de/flaggen/UNIT_KIN/ENGSUB.HTM with narrower white and blue stripes and different shades of all colors, even with white appearing grayish; most of these differences must be errors, for they also appear in other flags shown at the page. The castle also has different shape, the biggest difference being in windows, which are white and there are four of them in each of three rows.
Tomislav Todorovic, 16 February 2017

British County Flags variant

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 24 March 2018

Another variant of this proposal recently appeared at the British County Flags blog: https://britishcountyflags.com/2017/07/01/a-flag-for-north-uist/. It adds a white star to the canton, which is borrowed from another proposal - the blue flag with a large white star (below).
Tomislav Todorovic, 24 March 2018

Other proposals

(probable Internet fabrication)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 16 February 2017

This flag of North Uist is described in a discussion about the source of the flag of Lewis as being blue, charged with a large white star. The information is said to have originated from the Virtual Hebrides website and its message board, from about 1997. A Wikipedia discussion about the removed content of the North Uist page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ANorth_Uist displays an image of the flag, with a dark shade of blue and the star set near the hoist. However, the source cited is a FOTW mirror site which was closed down several years ago and this flag seems to have never been presented there with an image. [For my part, I cannot remember having ever seen it at the FOTW website or any of its mirrors.] Still the design does match the known description.

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 7 March 2019

The image at https://web.archive.org/web/20041228020337/http://www.globalguide.org/index.phtml?id=44472 differs from the one presented at Wikipedia - the star is larger and centered. Whether that is the only correct source, or the Wikipedia contributor did access some other source, might be impossible to tell.
Tomislav Todorovic, 7 March 2019

Most of these flags appear to be Internet fabrications.

Competitions for the flags of Eriskay, Benbecula and North Uist (Western Isles, Scotland) have just started and will be open until 7th June. The Flag Institute is actively participating.

Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-48227292
https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/2019/05/3-hebridean-flag-competitions/
Tomislav Todorovic, 15 May 2019