English: The ribbon of the Arctic Star, a British World War II military campaign medal, 32 millimetres wide with a 3½ millimetres wide Air Force blue band, a 6 millimetres wide Navy blue band, a 4 millimetres wide red band and a ¼ millimetres wide black band, repeated in reverse order and separated by a 4½ millimetres wide white band. The three colours represent the forces that were involved in the campaign, light blue for the Air Forces, dark blue for the Navy and red for the Merchant Navy, and the central white band, edged in black, represents the Arctic.