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image provided by Bishop Lamoureux, 3 March 2014
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The flags shown here are Originally from Nattsnakk fra Longyearbyen - Labels added to help flag identification at the suggestion of Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 31 March 2014
["Barneo Ice Camp is a unique Russian-operated drift station on the frozen Arctic Ocean near the North Pole. With its integrated ice runway, Barneo caters for the air-borne tourist industry that operates from Longyearbyen in Svalbard (Norway)." (Source: Ice Trek Expeditions) - Ed.]These flags are a set of flags that were shown flying at
Barneo, Russia, a camp near the Arctic Ocean. Some of them have been already
identified by various Reddit users. The ones in the middle are Russia (c)
and Moscow (d), beside Moscow is the flag of St. Petersburg (e), the
lower left flag has been identified as the flag of the Russian Airborne Troops
(g ?). Any help in identifying the remaining flags would be great. More
pictures of Barneo can be
found here.
Bishop Lamoureux, 3 March 2014
The flag of Moscow
referred to is specifically the city, not the region. At the Nattsnakk fra
Longyearbyen site [see Entry for
Thursday, 7
April 2011] there is an image with a
higher resolution. It also has a
different photograph that shows a few flags more.
The identification of
the flag for the Russian airborne troops (#21-f) is probably correct, for one
interpretation of "left", but it's not in the UFE picture, though it is in the
other one. The flag that says VICAAR is probably the flag of
Vicaar.
Peter Hans van den
Muijzenberg, 31 March 2014
image provided by Bishop Lamoureux, 3 March 2014The second flag from left to right, b, with the
Ice
Camp Barneo 90º logo is the company flag of
Polar Expeditions Ltd.. Looking
closely at the picture one can see that it reads "North Pole Expeditions" on top
of the ice camp logo and below has the URL address of "www.norpolex.com".
When searching for "Flags at Ice Camp Barneo" I found other pictures from the
same Camp:
Image from
Garden of Life.
Image from
Ice
Axe Expeditions
Image from
The Adventure Blog
Image from Børge
Ousland Polar Exploration
Image from Polar
Expeditions
Image from North Pole and
Beyond
Image from
Camp Barneo
Image from The
Explorers Web
Image from North Pole and
Beyond
[Please Note:
the following remarks from Peter were edited down from a much more detailed
reply] "They [referring to the different flag display photos] are probably not
from the same year. Each year the organisations involved in the Barneo Ice Camp
seem to set up a flag display. How many flags are in the camp would depend on
who are in the camp [at the time], as the various expeditions bring their own
flags. Also, as you can see in some of the photographs, there can be other flags
raised apart from the big display, like an extra Russian flag, for example.
...[Thus] the number of flags in the camp depends on ...[the time, when, and who
is present], causing additional flags to be flown outside the big display..."
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 20 April 2014
Image from Esteban Rivera, 20 April 2014
This picture from the Siberian Times newspaper shows a set of four flags, and they are (from left to right):
I think the UFE Flag #1 is that of a commercial enterprise called "Highrise Service". They may be a sponsor of expedition? To me, this orange item looks like a big air bag with logo.
On Flag #2, a bad photo, but I think I read letters "Nizhnevartovsk..." (a city in Siberia), maybe a flag of some regional organization?
Victor Lomantsov, 20 April 2014
