Last modified: 2019-02-08 by peter hans van den muijzenberg
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In the novel Nostromo by British author Joseph Conrad, there are two fictional countries, one of which is seceding from the other. They are called Republic of Costaguana and Western Republic of Sulaco.
On AlternateHistory.com, "Dr. Strangelove" has made pictures of the two countries' flags based on the descriptions in the novel.
Elias Granqvist, 26 June 2011
image by "Dr. Strangelove", 26 June 2011
In the novel, this flag is identified and described:
An enormous national flag of Costaguana, diagonal red and yellow, with two green palm trees in the middle, floated lazily at the mainmast head of the Juno.
I think I would have used a lighter colour of green for the palm trees, though; one that actually looks green.
I'm also not sure where the 3:4 ratio comes from.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 2 March 2012
image by Eugene Ipavec, 9 January 2012
I found a flag mentioned in Nostromo by Joseph Conrad:
How the United States cruiser, Powhattan, was the first to salute the Occidental flag — white, with a wreath of green laurel in the middle encircling a yellow amarilla flower.
The Occidental Republic is a fictional nation in which the novel occurs.
Sean McKinniss, 28 March 2003
The flower depicted on the Sulaco flag is an
amarilla flower
, which doesn't seem to have a clear botanical
meaning (it simply means "yellow" in Spanish, though thus named in an
English text). Therefore any reconstruction is not trivial and it would be acceptable to show several different reconstructions.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 December 2011
Actually, in English "Amarilla" is a variant for "Amaryllis" (Amaryllis belladonna & Amaryllis paradisicola). See eHow.
Ned Smith, 9 January 2012
In the novel, two flags are identified and described. Other than that, there are mentions of entities with flags:
And there are mentions of colours of flags:
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 2 March 2012