[1] The website of the SGSSI has a copy of the warrant, which addresses the arms only, and does not mention any flag.

The Flag Bulletin, XXXII:2 (1993), describes the badge which was granted on 14 February 1992 to celebrate the liberation of the islands from Argentine occupation.

It consists of a shield (lozengy argent and azure, on a pile vert a lion rampant or, armed and langued gules, holding a torch or, inflamed gules, and in chief two estoiles or), a reindeer crest, as supporters a fur seal and a macaroni penguin, and the motto Leo Terram Propriam Protegat ('Let the lion protect its own land').

The flag flies over the main government settlements on South Georgia Island, and the scientific bases of the British Antarctic Survey.

The original version of the commissioner's flag just displayed the shield (escutcheon) of the full arms, but it was later changed.