Based on the White Ensign. Two crosses of St George and four eight-point stars in the canton on a blue background.[1] (See also variant design under "Maori flags" below)
A blue flag with the New Zealand Flag in the canton, with the NZP emblem in the fly.
New Zealand Fire Service Ensign
A blue flag with the New Zealand Flag in the canton, with the Fire Service emblem in the fly.
1996–
New Zealand Customs Flag
A New Zealand Blue Ensign, with the letters "HMC" (for "Her Majesty's Customs" in the lower hoist was in use from 1966 to 1996. This flag superseded it in 1996.
1968–1998
New Zealand Ministry of Transport Ensign
A sky blue flag with the New Zealand Ensign in the canton, with the NZMOT coat of arms within a blue disc in the fly.
Similar to the amended design used as the de facto national flag 1835–1840, but with eight-pointed stars and black fimbriation in the canton
1990–
Flag of Tino rangatiratanga – Official National Māori Flag, approved by the NZ Cabinet in 2010[2]
A white curling stripe on a red and black field
Kotahitanga flag – unofficial Māori flag, widely used by Māori groups
Three horizontal stripes of red, white and black, defaced with a circular emblem featuring a mere crossed with a scroll representing the Treaty of Waitangi within a border of koru containing the word "Kotahitanga" (unity)
Example of a Maori Flag
Some Maori tribes use the Red Ensign defaced with their tribal name
Blue and gold, horizontally divided by a zigzag line ("dancetty", in vexillological terms), with counterchanged eight-pointed stars. Used by the Otago Regional Council, and widely by the general public in the Otago region
A Nordic Cross with white background representing the Southern Alps, with a green cross representing the lush bush and farmland of the South Island and blue representing the ocean. One of several flags adopted and promoted by various political groups advocating greater self-determination for the South Island (For a list of other such flags, see South Island nationalism#Flag concepts for the South Island).
File:New Munster Cross.jpgIndependence Flag of the South Island of New Zealand. Modified version of original by Son of Zealandia
A Nordic Cross with white background representing the Southern Alps and other snowcapped mountains, with a green cross representing the lush forest, bush and farmland of the South Island, and blue representing the rivers, lakes, and oceans.
Kyle Lockwood's flag – official alternative NZ flag (black white and blue version)
The original design was a red, white and blue flag with a Silver Fern representing "the people of New Zealand". The blue colour represents the Pacific Ocean, the red represents the Māori people and sacrifices made by all New Zealanders during wartime, white is a reference to Aotearoa the "Land of the Long White Cloud". The black white and blue version of the flag by Kyle Lockwood won the first of the New Zealand flag referendums, 2015–16, and the red white and blue design was a close second. Black is one of the most well known National colours of New Zealand, and represents the pride and strength of New Zealand.
Combines the red-white-blue and stars of the current flag (though with a brighter blue) and the bold diagonals of the Union Flag with the black-white-red of the flag of tino rangatiratanga, and adds the silver fern. Promoted widely after a New Zealand Herald article in 2002.[4]
2000
Aaron Nicholson’s flag
A modification of the current flag with the initials NZ to stylise the Union Jack and a long white cloud has made it to some a flag of compromise. This combination retains traditional links with the United Kingdom and New Zealand's Polynesian heritage. The NZ jack design is also reminiscent of the old 1974 Christchurch Commonwealth Games insignia. This design was displayed in newspapers around the country in 2005, and on an earlier TV debate with Angela De Audney.[5]
Helen Clark made her proposal while Prime Minister of New Zealand. She said that deleting the Union Jack from the New Zealand flag was a possibility if people wanted to redesign the flag, leaving it as a "rather attractive Southern Cross".[6]
2009
Proposed flag by Adam Kibbey
This flag includes the Union Jack, symbolising British links, and the national colours of New Zealand, black and white, with the red from the cross of the Union Jack being extended to show the Maori colour of red. The southern cross is also prominent.[7]
2015
James Bowman's flag
The Koru Fern combines two iconic New Zealand symbols: the silver fern and the koru. It was one design that helped stimulate debate prior to official submissions and was submitted to the New Zealand Government as an alternate design for the New Zealand Flag.[8][9][10]