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The flag is dark blue with a white twelve-pointed star containing an anchor; the funnel follows the national flag’s arrangement. Dark blue represents the ocean, the narrow yellow funnel band the equator, and the white star Nauru’s position just south of it, with twelve points for the island’s tribal groups. The Log specifies a black anchor. Rosanoski recorded blue anchors and a gold funnel band on Rosie D in 1983 and Eigamoiya in 1989, but considered that distance and an expectation of matching the dark-blue field might explain his observations. Eigamoiya had a black funnel top before her Lyttelton survey.

Brown 1995, under Nauru Corporation (Victoria) Inc., gives a yellow anchor and unequal star points, with the quarter points longer. Rosanoski doubts the unequal points in view of funnel photographs and the star’s tribal symbolism.

Pedersen’s blue flag with a central white twelve-pointed star and yellow anchor was reported as a civil ensign. The FOTW discussion identifies it instead as the shipping company’s house flag. Rosanoski allows that anchor colours might have changed, but favours black. A yellow-anchor version on the Oceania Shipping Forum has no stated source.