THAT Australian flag - flies at Australia's largest regatta

4:45 AM Wed 26 Jan 2011 GMT

'Windspirit’s Australian II flag - Audi Victoria Week 2011' Teri Dodds /Audi Victoria Week

When John Bertrand and his Australia II crew won the America?s Cup in Newport, Alan Bond and the support crew delivered a giant Australian flag to Australia II which was hoisted to the mast top, along with the iconic boxing kangaroo battle flag. That 48 foot x 24 foot Australian flag was at the time, the largest flying flag in the World. The Australian flags that now fly atop the Australian Parliament and the Sydney Harbour Bridge have been cut from that original pattern. Today the flag that fluttered in Newport on that historic day flew on Corio Bay Geelong, ...

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THAT Australian flag - flies at Australia's largest regatta

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