Anchorage, Alaska, City Flag
Anchorage is located in South Central Alaska. The state was admitted as a United States territory in 1912, and Anchorage was incorporated in 1920. The city does have a city flag, but there is no information available on when it was adopted, who designed it, and whether it was chosen from contest submissions.
The flag has a gold field and contains the city seal in the center. The meaning of the images within the seal have been noted to represent the following:
Anchor: The city’s name and its role as an anchorage for ships
Ship: Captain James Cook, a British sailor that explored Anchorage in what is now called Cook Inlet in the 1700s
Sun: The variation in daylight hours in the area from winter to summer
According to reports, the flag has been in use since the mid to late 1900s. There is no information available on when the Anchorage city seal was created in the codes for that city, so it is not possible to find a date when the flag may have been designed and put in use.
In 2004, the North American Vexillological Association, NAVA, conducted The American City Flag Survey. Anchorage’s flag ranked 29th out of 150 flags. That rating is surprising since most city flags that contained a city coat of arms or seal were ranked very low in the survey.
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