The flag code for Heard Island and McDonald Islands, an uninhabited Australian territory in the Southern Ocean. It flies the Australian flag, so the emoji looks like ๐ฆ๐บ.
Use is mostly trivia and flag collecting. Volcano fans mention Big Ben, the active volcano on Heard Island.
The islands are a protected nature reserve, and very few people ever visit.
Facts
Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands ๐ญ๐ฒ 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 :heard_mcdonald_islands: or :flag_heard_island_mcdonald_islands:. People also look for it with words like โHMโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)
Design history
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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