The flag of Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. It is split diagonally into blue and green, with the Southern Cross, a golden bosun bird and a map of the island in a gold disc.
Nature fans post ๐จ๐ฝ about the island's yearly red crab migration, with ๐ฆ. Its name makes it a tempting pun in festive messages next to ๐.
The island got its name because a ship's captain sighted it on Christmas Day, not because of any holiday tradition.
Facts
Flag: Christmas Island ๐จ๐ฝ is an emoji in the flags category, under country flag. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 2.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :christmas_island: or :flag_christmas_island:. People also look for it with words like โCXโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
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