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image by Tomislav Šipek, 23 November 2015
Here is flag and coat of arms of Leka. Administrative center is Leknes.
Source:
https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1989-04-21-241?q=flagg
Tomislav Šipek, 23 November 2015
image by Tomislav Šipek, 23 November 2015
Blazon: I rødt en vinget gull klo. In English: Gules a winged claw or.
Approved by the crownprice-regent's resolution of 21. april 1989.
As we go back in time with these approvals it is ever more difficult to find the
designers of them mentioned on line... :) But there is
another TV report on
its symbolic
The local regualtions on the use of teh coat of arms and the flag is at
http://www.leka.kommune.no/getfile.php/2846/Lokal%20forskrift%20for%20bruk%20av%20kommunev%E5pen%20K.sak%2016-1999.pdf
The symbolic of the charges is explained rather hermetically at
http://www.leka.kommune.no/index.php?articleid=19
"Municipal arms symbolizes "Ørnerovet" - as happened in 1932, and the wild
red-yellow serpentine mountians on the island outside - making the island a
geological peculiarity. The Ørnerovet, literally the eagle robbery, is name
given to the event of 1932. It is summarized in the
leaflet.
"Svanhild Hartvigsen disappeared on 5 June 1932, when she was 3½ years old. A
full-scale search began, down towards the sea and high up on near-by hillsides.
One of her shoes and her handkerchief were found 6 or 7 hours later, near
a hill called Galten. Three men began to clamber up the steep scree on
neighbouring Hagafjellet, and Svanhild was found unhurt on an almost
inaccessible ledge near the red mark you can see, close to a white-tailed
eagle’s nest. No child of her age could get onto the ledge by herself. The only
explanation was that an eagle had put her there."
Željko Heimer, 24 November 2015