Badge (Blazer), British Antarctic Survey Club

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Badge (Blazer), British Antarctic Survey Club

Description

Ca. 2020. Blazer badge for members of the British Antarctic Survey Club.  The central device is that of the British Antarctic Territory; the official description is thus:

On 11 March 1952, the Falkland Island Dependencies (constituted in 1908, divided in 1963 into British Antarctic Territory and South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands) were granted arms by Royal Warrant:

Arms: Per fess wavy barry, wavy of six Argent and Azure, and Argent on a Pile Gules, a Torch enflamed proper.

Supporters: In Dexter a Lion Or and in Sinister an Emperor Penguin proper upon a compartment divided per pale and representing in Dexter a grassy Mount and in Sinister an ice Floe.

Motto: Research and Discovery.

This coat of arms was transferred to the B.A.T. on 1 August 1963, with the addition of helm, crest and mantling:

Mantling: in Dexter Or doubled Gules and in Sinister Argent doubled Azure. Crest: Upon a Wreath of the colours of the Mantling a representation of the research Ship Discovery.

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Citation

“Badge (Blazer), British Antarctic Survey Club,” dittybag, accessed November 2, 2024, http://dittybag.ianewatts.org/collection/items/show/203.

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