The university replaces its crest with a new logo

The colours, yellow and blue, are the same, representing the elements on the original, sun sea and sky but the sailing ship, on the crest, is gone.

Elements of the logo “symbolise the many lands upon which Flinders University operates, across both South Australia and the Northern Territory, including the coastal hills described by Flinders in his journal as he mapped the coastline of the country he would name Australia.”

But what is gone is the sloop on the original crest which Royal Navy officer Matthew Flinders used to sail around Australia.  The university announcement does not mention that, but does state, “the first Australians on these lands predated Flinders by millennia and their lands were never ceded.”

The new livery will roll-out of time as existing print stocks expire. Digital art is available today.