A pennon , also known as a pennant or pendant , is a long narrow flag which is larger at the hoist than at the fly , i.e., the flag narrows as it moves away from the flagpole. It can have several shapes, such as triangular, tapering (square tail) or triangular swallowtail (forked tail), etc. In maritime use , pennants are to be hung from the main truck .
27-490: The Koala Park Sanctuary is a privately owned and run Australian wildlife park on 10 acres in West Pennant Hills , a northern suburb of Sydney . The park is known for its collection of koalas and other Australian animals and is set in a rainforest-like area. It exists to show Australian native animals and birds and teach the public about them. The park receives about 400,000 guests annually. The construction of
54-538: A pennant , is the sign of command, and is first hoisted when a captain commissions his ship. The pennant, which was really the old "pennoncell", was of three colours for the whole of its length, and towards the end left separate in two or three tails, and so continued until the end of the Napoleonic Wars . Now, however the pennant is a long white streamer with the St George's cross in the inner portion close to
81-495: A dozen, and 20 dozen of the same kind of flags at 12 shillings a dozen. Pennons were also used in various sports. The streamer, so called in Tudor days but now better known as the pennant or pendant, was a long, tapering flag, which it was directed "shall stand in the top of a ship or in the forecastle , and therein be put no arms, but the man's cognisance or device , and may be of length 20, 30, 40 or 60 yards (55 m), and
108-516: A few days. Local stories twist this system to say that when the pennant was raised the soldiers would have to stop drinking and clean up the streets after running amok in his absence. In 1850, at a time when the combined population of Field of Mars Common and Castle Hill numbered fewer than 3,000 people, Henry Parkes approved, on behalf of the Board of National Education in New South Wales,
135-586: A number of issues had not been resolved and believed that animals were suffering. However, an RSPCA inspector who visited the park said he did not believe any of the animals were suffering or had been neglected or were malnourished. In February 2016, the RSPCA fined the sanctuary $ 75,000 and banned them from acquiring new koalas for six months due to a koala being dehydrated and emaciated and five koalas showing signs of chlamydia . Official website West Pennant Hills, New South Wales West Pennant Hills
162-638: A pennant is awarded to the winner of major competitions. For many years, this was the only prize given. As a result, a League Championship is often referred to as a "pennant", as in, "The Giants win the Pennant!" And in Australian football, a premiership can also be referred to as a "flag". In the Netherlands, an orange pennon is always used on the King's Day and several other national holidays related to
189-692: A population of 16,374. Of these: 33°44′53″S 151°02′02″E / 33.748°S 151.034°E / -33.748; 151.034 Pennon Pennon-style flags were one of the principal three varieties of flags carried during the Middle Ages (the other two were the banner and the standard ). The pennon is a flag resembling the guidon in shape, but only half the size. It does not contain any coat of arms, but only crests , mottos and heraldic and ornamental devices. Pennoncell , streamer and wimpel are minor varieties of this style of flag (see variant types ). Pennon comes from
216-581: Is a suburb in the Hills District of Sydney , New South Wales , Australia . West Pennant Hills is located 21 km northwest of the Sydney central business district in the local government areas of The Hills Shire and Hornsby Shire . West Pennant Hills is a residential suburb with a commercial area located at Thompsons Corner, also the site of the suburb's government primary school, West Pennant Hills Public School. Cherrybrook railway station
243-400: Is a walk-through wildlife park with most of the animals being exhibited behind wire and cage-style exhibits. The following animals are currently held in the park's collection: The park has a live sheep shearing exhibition run at various times throughout the day called "The Stockman's Camp". It also recounts Australian bush stories. The park also allows visitors to handle the animals, abiding by
270-484: Is located to the north of West Pennant Hills near Castle Hill Road and nearby there is another shopping complex on Coonara Avenue, where a Woolworths , restaurants and several other small shops are located. Thompsons Corner is named after Andrew Thompson (1773–1810), a convict (see Scotland Island ), who received a grant of 100 acres (0.40 km ) in 1796 opposite the signal station in Pennant Hills. Workmen on
297-462: Is slit as well as a guidon or standard". Among the fittings of the ship that took Beauchamp , Earl of Warwick , to France in the reign of Henry VII was a "great streamer for the ship 40 yards (37 m) in length [and] 8 yards (7.3 m) in breadth". Besides the white ensign, ships commissioned in the Royal Navy fly a long streamer from the maintopgallant masthead. This, which is called
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#1732790122259324-586: The Koala Park Sanctuary began in the 1920s, and it opened in October 1930. The park is situated on a 40-acre allotment across Castle Hill Road, which initially started as the Koala Park in the late 1920s. The souvenir room and kiosk were built as tea rooms . However, the site's exposure to winter winds made it challenging to maintain the animals' health. Environmentalist Noel Burnet had seen
351-454: The Latin penna , meaning "a wing " or "a feather ". Initially it was a term for a "small pennant". Pennant have been used as a general (and imprecise) term for flags which are not strictly rectangular. Pendant is an obsolete spelling of pennant. The pennon was sometimes pointed, but more generally forked or swallow-tailed at the end. In the 11th century, the pennon was generally square,
378-550: The Queensland Code of Practice for koala handling time. The Koala Park Sanctuary opened a koala research hospital in 1930, caring for sick and injured native animals and releasing them back into the wild. It is open to the public and provides education about native animals and the problems faced by the koalas living close to humans. Burnet was aware of the risk of the extinction of koalas. The Koala Park successfully bred sixty koalas in its first 11 years and it claims to be
405-418: The appointment of local patrons for the commencement of Pennant Hills Public School. Botany, Fort Street, Smithfield and Pennant Hills were the first metropolitan schools under the control of the newly constituted Board. The school first opened under the name of Pennant Hills Public School when the township of Pennant Hills was centred on the ridge at the intersection of Pennant Hills and Castle Hill Roads, which
432-476: The bottom of Hill Road. The suburb was named for both its geological features and its man-made additions. When Sydney was first established, 'Pennant Hills', applied to the range of hills stretching north from Parramatta. The Pennant refers to a flag pole erected on the area's highest point. During the first years of the Sydney settlement this flag pole with its pennant was a form of early communication between
459-464: The decimation of the koala population for the fur trade . At the time there was little awareness of ecological issues and the trade was seen as helpful to Australia's balance of payments . For conservation and humanitarian reasons, the Koala Club of Australia took up the issue. Burnet wrote: " He dedicated the remainder of his life to researching and preserving the animals' habitat. " The park
486-460: The first sanctuary to breed koalas in captivity. The park opened without subsidies from the government. In December 2010, the Department of Primary Industries inspectors reported finding ageing and dirty animal exhibits, drainage problems, and out-of-date records. The inspectors issued a series of notices to Koala Park Sanctuary to fix the issues. A newspaper editor attended the park and claimed
513-422: The fly end being decorated with the addition of pointed tongues or streamers, somewhat similar to the oriflamme . During the reign of Henry III , the pennon acquired the distinctive swallow-tail, or the single-pointed shape. Another version of the single-pointed pennon was introduced in the 13th century. In shape this was a scalene triangle , obtained by cutting diagonally the vertically oblong banner. The pennon
540-519: The government in Parramatta and the governor's outer Sydney residence. It was used to signal to Parramatta that the governor was returning to Parramatta after spending time at his retreat in the outer areas of Sydney. When his horse-drawn carriage went past Thompsons Corner, the pennant would be raised and as this was in clear sight of the Parramatta garrison, they would prepare for his return in
567-479: The items that figured at the funeral of the Duke of Norfolk in 1554, and in the description of the lord mayor 's procession in 1555, it reads "two goodly pennes (state barges) decked with flags and streamers, and a 1000 penselles." Among the items that ran the total cost of the funeral of Oliver Cromwell up to an enormous sum of money, there is the mention of 30 dozen of pennoncells a foot long and costing 20 shillings
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#1732790122259594-540: The mast. Pennants have been carried by men-of-war from the earliest times, prior to 1653 at the yard-arm, but since that date at the maintopgallant masthead. There are other navies that also fly pennant in a similar manner (see commissioning pennant ). The commissioning pennant in ships may end in a point, but they can also be forked, in which case it is also called a banderole . Pennants are also associated with American sports teams, such as Major League Baseball and college sports teams. In Australian rules football ,
621-419: The railway from Strathfield to Hornsby established a camp and stores depot there in about 1890. During Lachlan Macquarie's governorship (1810–1821), a timbersawing establishment stood near today's Thompsons Corner. In those early days the pit-sawyers roamed the countryside, and the saw pits were set up at various places close to forest areas. In the early 1990s, one of the last mills was demolished, having stood at
648-539: The size, shape and bearings of the standards , banners , pennons and pennoncells, says "a pennon must be two yards and a half long, made round at the end, and contain the arms of the owner," and warns that "from a standard or streamer a man may flee but not from his banner or pennon bearing his arms." A pennoncell (or penselle) was a diminutive pennon carried by the esquires . Pennons were also used for any special ceremonial occasion, and more particularly at state funerals. For instance, there were "XII doz. penselles" among
675-505: Was a purely personal ensign . It was essentially the flag of the knight bachelor , as apart from the knight banneret , carried by him on his lance , displaying his personal armorial bearings , and set out so that they stood in correct position when he couched his lance for charging. A manuscript of the 16th century (Harl. 2358, "A paper Heraldical book in small Quarto") in the British Museum , which gives detailed particulars as to
702-423: Was a trading point on the way north. When the railway station line came through the area, a new school was built in 1925 closer to the railway station, to be known as 'Pennant Hills East'. West was added to the name of the original school and it became 'Pennant Hills West' and eventually the area around Thompsons Corner became known as West Pennant Hills . Pennant Hills Post Office opened on 1 January 1867 and
729-635: Was renamed West Pennant Hills on 1 August 1898, due to the Pennant Hills Railway Station office (opened two months earlier) being given the name Pennant Hills . West Pennant Hills was split off from Pennant Hills as a separate suburb on 23 August 1986. Tourist attractions include the Cumberland State Forest and the Koala Park Sanctuary . At the 2021 census , West Pennant Hills recorded
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