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To: bob who wrote (8459)	12/19/1997 4:18:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13949

Hold Everything... the Royal Greenwich Observatory challenges Kribati's claim to be the first to see the dawn of the Millennium. ========== Royal Greenwich Observatory Special Information Leaflet: No. 22 'The First Sunrise in the New Millennium' There has been considerable media interest in the decision of the Republic of Kiribati to declare that all the islands that it comprises will use the same date and that this will correspond to that of the Gilbert Islands which lie to the west of the International Dateline. The controversy arises because many of the other islands lie to the east of the dateline and the effect of the change is to alter the date in these islands so that they will be a day ahead of that indicated by the position of the dateline. <big snip> Conclusion The first Place to have sunrise each year is probably the Balleny Islands in Antarctica where the Sun is below the horizon for less than one hour. The question of which inhabited island is the first depends on a knowledge of which islands to include and which to exclude and is outside the scope of this note. ========== Much more at: ast.cam.ac.uk - Jeff