flag: Tokelau 🇹🇰 - OzVoca Emoji Details
flag: Tokelau
This emoji represents Tokelau, an island territory in the South Pacific. It features a canoe and stars on a blue background.
This flag reflects the life and culture of the Tokelauan people. The yellow canoe symbolizes the journey forward, and the four stars represent the Southern Cross and the islands.
The blue background represents the Pacific Ocean that surrounds them, and the traditional canoe, a 'vaka,' signifies the journey towards the future. The four stars represent the Southern Cross, which illuminates the night sky of the Southern Hemisphere.
This is a relatively new flag, with its design decided by a public referendum in 2008. The four stars represent the three main atolls as well as Swains Island, which is currently a US territory but is claimed by Tokelau, making it a symbol that simultaneously shows their history and future aspirations.