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When we are still making the final feverish preparations for the New Year, some inhabitants of the Earth not only met it and had a lot of fun, but by this time they even managed to rest and sleep. For there are places in the world where the New Year is celebrated much earlier than here. In our photo gallery we present those places where the New Year is celebrated first on our planet.
Traditionally, Kiribati will be the first to celebrate the New Year 2015. More specifically, on the Linear Islands, which are located further east than the other islands of this country. In 1994, one of the presidential candidates promised citizens that if he won the election, he would make Kiribati the first to celebrate the New Year in the whole world. He won and kept his word: he moved the demarcation line of time (the conventional line on the map of time zones). Since then, Kiribati has been divided into three time zones, and in the easternmost one, midnight occurs 14 hours earlier than in London.
In the same time zone as Kiribati is Tokelau, which includes a group of islands consisting of three coral atolls: Atafu, Nukunono and Fakaofo. It is a dependent territory of New Zealand. The time zone change here occurred as recently as 2011, and the main reason for this was the problem of interaction in contacts with New Zealand, since previously the island was on the other side of the time demarcation line.
Residents of Samoa will celebrate the New Year an hour later. In 2011, there was also a time zone change; the date December 30, 2011 was not in the Samoan calendar. This was done for better interaction and development of cooperation with Australia and New Zealand. Interestingly, the previous time zone change was carried out in 1892 in order to adjust the time to California time.
At the same time as Samoa, residents of Tonga, an island located one-third of the way between New Zealand and Hawaii, south of Samoa, will celebrate the New Year.
Chatham Islanders will be next to ring in the New Year. This small archipelago consists of two inhabited islands - Chatham and Pitta. Other small islands have reserve status and are largely inaccessible to both island residents and tourists. Interestingly, Chatham Island has its own time zone, which differs by 45 minutes (less) from the time in New Zealand.
After the Chatham Islanders, New Zealand will be the next to celebrate New Year 2015.
At the same time as in New Zealand, they will celebrate the New Year in Fiji. This is a state that is located on 322 islands and islets of volcanic origin, surrounded by coral reefs, of which only 110 islands are inhabited.
The first mainland state whose residents will celebrate the New Year 2015 (at the same time as the residents of New Zealand and Fiji) is Russia, or more precisely, the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, located in the southeastern part of the volcanic Kamchatka peninsula.
In the same time zone as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, there are numerous small islands and archipelagos in the Pacific Ocean: Tuvalu, Nauru, Wallis and Futuna, Wake and the Marshall Islands. In the photo: Nauru island.
We travel further and move west. Next to celebrate the New Year will be the residents of New Caledonia, a French overseas territory located in the Western Pacific Ocean, in Melanesia, about 1,400 kilometers east of Australia and 1,500 kilometers northwest of New Zealand.
Countries that celebrate the New Year at the same time as New Caledonia are: Vanuatu, Federated States of Micronesia and Solomon Islands.
Together with New Caledonia, the New Year 2015 will be celebrated by residents of another Russian city - Magadan.
On our journey, we finally arrived in Australia, where the first to celebrate the New Year, of course, were the residents of the east coast - Sydney and Melbourne.
Simultaneously with the residents of Sydney and Melbourne, the New Year will be celebrated in Vladivostok and on such Pacific islands as Guam, the Mariana Islands and Papua New Guinea. In the photo: the island of Guam.
We end our journey in this time zone, and if you want to continue it, the atlas will help you with this!
One of the most joyful holidays is approaching - New Year. Where on the planet will be the first to celebrate New Year 2010?
— Time zone UTC+14 — Kiritimati Islands, Kiribas
The first territory to celebrate the New Year will be the Christmas Islands (Christmas isl.), the island chain of Kiritimati, the state of Kiribati (Kiribati - pronounced Kiribas).
The state of Kiribas (also called Gilbert Island) is located in the central part of the Pacific Ocean and stretches from the eastern to the western hemisphere.
Until 2004, the Date Line, roughly running along the 180th meridian, divided the state of Kiribati into 2 different dates, when the islands in the western part of the state were 24 hours ahead of the eastern part.
In 2005, the Kiribati government decided to move the International Date Line several thousand kilometers to the east, thereby putting all of its 3 time zones on one side of the International Date Line (roughly like the eastern part of Chukotka, which is in the Western Hemisphere).
Following this decision, the eastern islands of Kiribati moved from the Western Hemisphere time zones GMT-10 and GMT-11 (the “-” sign indicates time behind Greenwich Mean Time by 10 and 11 hours) to the new time zones GMT+13 and GMT+ 14 (“+” means times 13 and 14 hours ahead of Greenwich).
Previously, all territories located in the area of the 180 meridian (Chukotka, New Zealand, Fiji) could be conditionally considered the first to celebrate the New Year.
In the modern world of using Summer Time and shifting the Date Line of the state of Kiribas, the arrangement of the clock hands on New Year's Eve has changed a little.
So, when the Christmas Islands (Christmas isl.) celebrate the New Year 2010, the time in Kamchatka and Chukotka will be 22 hours (December 31), the time in Vladivostok will be 20 hours, in Moscow - 13 hours, in London (Greenwich) - 10 hours morning of December 31st. It is not difficult to add 14 hours difference with the Christmas Islands to 10 o'clock in the morning in Greenwich to get midnight - New Year's Day in Kiritimati.
— Time zone UTC+13:45 — Chatham Islands, New Zealand
15 minutes after the arrival of the New Year on the Kiritimati Islands, the second in line to celebrate the New Year will be the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. These islands are 12h45 minutes ahead of Greenwich Time. Taking into account summer time in the southern hemisphere, they are 13 hours 45 minutes ahead of Greenwich time at the time of the New Year 2010.
— Time zone UTC+13 — New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Phoenix Islands
In third place for the arrival of the New Year (or with a difference of 13 hours in time from Greenwich Mean Time) are New Zealand (taking into account summer time), Fiji (summer time), the islands of Tonga (13 hours ahead of Greenwich all year round) and the Phoenix Islands, already the mentioned state of Kiribati.
So, when the New Year is celebrated in Wellington, the time in Kamchatka and Chukotka will be 23 o'clock, in Magadan - 22 o'clock, in Vladivostok and Sakhalin - 21 o'clock, in Moscow - 14 o'clock, in London - 11 o'clock in the morning, in New York - 6 o'clock in the morning, in Los Angeles - 3 am on December 31st.
NEW YEAR IS COMING TO RUSSIA
— Russia time zone MSK +9 (UTC+12) — Kamchatka, Chukotka
The fourth place (or with a difference of 12 hours in Greenwich time) in celebrating the New Year 2010 falls on Chukotka and Kamchatka, the islands of Nauru, Tuvalu, the Marshall Islands, and the last - the third time zone of the state of Kiribati - with the capital Tarawa.
When the New Year is celebrated in Anadyr and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the time in Magadan will be 23:00, in Vladivostok and Sakhalin - 22:00, in Moscow - 15:00, in London - 12:00 pm, in New York - 7:00 am, in Los Angeles - 4:00 am, in Hawaii - 2 am on December 31st.
Residents of Honolulu (Hawaii) will celebrate the New Year 22 hours later than residents of Chukotka and Kamchatka. Next, the New Year will come to Norfolk Island (Australia) - which is 30 minutes ahead of the time in Sydney.
— Russia time zone MSK +8 (UTC+11) — Magadan
New Year in Magadan coincides with New Year in the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and the main Australian cities - Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart (these cities are in summer time).
When Magadan celebrates the New Year, the time in Vladivostok and Sakhalin will be 23:00, in Moscow - 16:00, in London - 13:00, in New York - 8:00 am, in Los Angeles - 5:00 am, in Hawaii - 3:00 am on December 31st.
— Russia time zone MSK +7 (UTC+10) — Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Sakhalin
New Year in Vladivostok, Sakhalin and Khabarovsk coincides with New Year in Guam, Papua New Guinea, and the Australian cities of Brisbane and Cairns (these cities do not use summer time).
When Vladivostok celebrates the New Year, the time in Tokyo will be 23:00, in Moscow - 17:00, in London - 14:00, in New York - 9:00 am, in Los Angeles - 6:00 am, in Hawaii - 4:00 am on December 31st.
— Russia time zone MSK +6 (UTC+9) — Chita, Yakutsk, Blagoveshchensk
New Year in Chita, Yakutsk coincides with New Year in Japan, Korea, Palau, and the Australian city of Perth (does not use summer time).
When Chita and Yakutsk celebrate the New Year, the time in Beijing will be 23:00, in Moscow - 18:00, in London - 15:00, in New York - 10:00 am, in Los Angeles - 7:00 am, in Hawaii - 5:00 am on December 31st.
— Russia time zone MSK +5 (UTC+8) — Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude
The New Year in Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude coincides with the New Year in China, Singapore, Mongolia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Bali (Indonesia).
When Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude celebrate the New Year, the time in Moscow will be 19:00, in London - 16:00, in New York - 11:00 am, in Los Angeles - 8:00 am, in Hawaii - 6:00 am on December 31st.
On the Kiritimati Islands it will already be 6am on January 1, 2010, and in New Zealand it will be 5am on January 1, 2010.
— Russia time zone MSK +4 (UTC+7) — Krasnoyarsk, Kemerovo, Kyzyl
The New Year in Krasnoyarsk and Kemerovo coincides with the New Year in Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.
When Krasnoyarsk celebrates the New Year, the time in Moscow will be 20:00, in London - 17:00, in New York - 12:00 noon, in Los Angeles - 9:00 am, in Hawaii - 7:00 am on December 31st.
On the Kiritimati Islands it will already be 7am on January 1, 2010, and in New Zealand it will be 6am on January 1, 2010.
— Russia time zone MSK +3 (UTC+6) — Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Barnaul
The New Year in Novosibirsk and Omsk coincides with the New Year on the Diego Garcia Islands (Indian Ocean), Bhutan, and Astana.
When Novosibirsk and Omsk celebrate the New Year, the time in Moscow will be 21:00, in London - 18:00, in New York - 13:00, in Los Angeles - 10:00 am, in Hawaii - 8:00 am on December 31st.
On the Kiritimati Islands it will already be 8am on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand it will be 7am on January 1, 2010, in Sydney it will be 5am on January 1, 2010.
When the New Year is celebrated in Kathmandu, the time in New Zealand will be 7:15 a.m. on January 1, in Vladivostok it will be 4:15 a.m., in Beijing - 2:15 a.m., Moscow will be 21:15 a.m., in London - 18:15 a.m., in New York - 13:15 a.m., in Los Angeles - 10:15 am, in Hawaii - 8:15 am on December 31st.
After Nepal, the New Year will come to India and Sri Lanka - the time in which is 5:30 minutes ahead of Greenwich time.
When Delhi and Mumbai celebrate the New Year, the time in New Zealand will be 7:30 a.m. on January 1, in Vladivostok it will be 4:30 a.m., in Beijing it will be 2:30 a.m. on January 1, in Moscow it will be 21:30 a.m. on December 31, in London it will be 6:30 p.m., in New York. - 13:30 minutes, in Los Angeles - 10:30 minutes in the morning, in Hawaii - 8:30 minutes in the morning on December 31.
— Russia time zone MSK +2 (UTC+5) — Ekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Perm, Tyumen, Ufa
The New Year in Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk coincides with the New Year in the Maldives, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Pakistan.
When Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk celebrate the New Year, the time in Moscow will be 22:00, in London - 19:00, in New York - 14:00, in Los Angeles - 11:00 am, in Hawaii - 9:00 am on December 31st.
On the Kiritimati islands it will already be 9 am on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 8 am on January 1, 2010, on Kamchatka and Chukotka - 7 am on January 1, 2010.
— Russia time zone MSK +1 (UTC+4) — Izhevsk, Samara, Tolyatti
New Year in Izhevsk and Samara coincides with New Year in Dubai, Seychelles, o. Mauritius.
When Izhevsk and Samara celebrate the New Year, the time in Moscow will be 23:00, in London - 20:00, in New York - 15:00, in Los Angeles - 12:00 noon, in Hawaii - 10:00 am on December 31st.
On the Kiritimati islands it will already be 10 am on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 9 am on January 1, 2010, on Kamchatka and Chukotka - 8 am on January 1, 2010.
— Russia time zone MSK (UTC+3) — Moscow, St. Petersburg
New Year in Moscow and St. Petersburg coincides with New Year in Kenya, Tanzania, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar, Madagascar.
When Moscow and St. Petersburg celebrate the New Year, the time in London will be 21:00, in New York - 16:00, in Los Angeles - 13:00, in Hawaii - 11:00 am on December 31st.
On the Kiritimati islands it will already be 11 am on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 10 am on January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 9 am on January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 8 am on January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 7 am 1 January 2010.
— Russia time zone MSK -1 (UTC+2) — Kaliningrad
New Year in Kaliningrad coincides with New Year in Ukraine and the Republic of Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Greece, Syria, Israel, Turkey, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia (summer time).
When Kaliningrad celebrates the New Year, the time in London will be 22:00, in New York - 17:00, in Los Angeles - 14:00, in Hawaii - 12:00 on December 31st.
On the Kiritimati Islands it will already be 12 noon on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 11 a.m. on January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 10 a.m. on January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 9 a.m. on January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 8 a.m. 1 January 2010.
— Time zone UTC+1 — France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Norway
When Paris and Rome celebrate the New Year, the time in London will be 23:00, in New York - 18:00, in Los Angeles - 15:00, in Hawaii - 13:00 on December 31st.
On the Kiritimati Islands it will already be 13:00 on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 12:00 on January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 11:00 on January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 10:00 on January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 9:00 on January 1 2010.
— Time zone UTC — Great Britain, Iceland, Portugal, Canary Islands.
When London and Lisbon celebrate the New Year, the time in New York will be 19:00, in Los Angeles - 16:00, in Hawaii - 14:00 on December 31st.
On the Kiritimati islands it will already be 14:00 on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 13:00 on January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 12:00 on January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 11:00 am on January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 10:00 am on January 1, 2010 .
Next, the New Year will come on the islands of Cape Verde and the Azores (UTC-1), which are 1 hour behind Greenwich time; in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Raulo (UTC-2) - 2 hours behind Greenwich, Chile and Argentina (UTC-3) - 3 hours behind Greenwich; O. Newfoundland (Canada), which is 3h30 minutes behind Greenwich (UTC-3:30); Halifax (Canada), Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico (UTC-4); Venezuela - which is 4h30 minutes behind Greenwich (UTC-4:30);
— Time zone UTC-5 — New York, Cuba, Panama
When New York and Havana celebrate the New Year, the time in Los Angeles will be 21:00, in Hawaii - 19:00 on December 31st.
On the Kiritimati islands it will already be 19:00 on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 18:00 on January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 17:00 on January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 16:00 on January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 15:00 on January 1, 2010, in Moscow - 8 am on January 1, 2010, in London - 5 am on January 1, 2010.
— Time zone UTC-6 — Chicago, Houston, Mexico City
When Chicago and Houston celebrate the New Year, the time in Los Angeles will be 22:00, in Hawaii - 20:00 on December 31st.
On the islands of Kiritimati it will already be 20:00 on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 19:00 on January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 18:00 on January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 17:00 on January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 16:00 on January 1, 2010, in Moscow - 9 am on January 1, 2010, in London - 6 am on January 1, 2010.
— Time zone UTC-7 — Denver, Albuquerque, Calgary
When Denver and Calgary (Canada) celebrate the New Year, the time in Los Angeles will be 23:00, in Hawaii - 21:00 on December 31st.
On the Kiritimati islands it will already be 21:00 on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 20:00 on January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 19:00 on January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 18:00 on January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 17:00 on January 1, 2010, in Moscow - 10 am on January 1, 2010, in London - 7 am on January 1, 2010.
— Time zone UTC-8 — Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas, Vancouver, o. Pitcairn
When Los Angeles and Vancouver celebrate the New Year, the time in Hawaii will be 22:00 on December 31st, the time in Samoa and Niue will be 21:00 on December 31st.
On the islands of Kiritimati it will already be 22:00 on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 21:00 on January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 20:00 on January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 19:00 on January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 18:00 on January 1, 2010, in Moscow - 11 am on January 1, 2010, in London - 8 am on January 1, 2010.
— Time zone UTC-9 — Anchorage (Alaska)
When Anchorage celebrates the New Year, the time in Hawaii will be 23:00 on December 31st, the time in Samoa and Niue will be 22:00 on December 31st.
On the islands of Kiritimati it will already be 23:00 on January 1, 2010, in New Zealand - 22:00 on January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 21:00 on January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 20:00 on January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 19:00 on January 1, 2010, in Moscow - 12 noon on January 1, 2010, in London - 9 a.m. on January 1, 2010.
— Time zone UTC-10 — Hawaii, Cook Islands, Tahiti
When Honolulu and Papeete celebrate the New Year, the time on the islands of Samoa and Niue will be 23:00 on December 31st.
On the Kiritimati Islands it will be midnight on January 1-2, 2010, in New Zealand - 23:00 on January 1, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 22:00 on January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 21:00 on January 1, 2010, in Vladivostok - 20:00 on January 1, 2010, in Moscow - 13:00 on January 1, 2010, in London - 10:00 in the morning on January 1, 2010.
— Time zone UTC-11 — Samoa (Apia), American Samoa (Pago), Niue, Midway
The most recent territories to see off the old year 2009 and welcome the New Year 2010 will be the islands of Samoa and American Samoa, Niue and Midway Atoll.
When Samoa and Niue celebrate the New Year, the time on the Kiritimati islands will already be 1 am on January 2, 2010, in New Zealand it will be midnight on January 1-2, 2010, in Kamchatka and Chukotka - 11 pm on January 1, 2010, in Sydney - 10 pm 1 January 2010, in Vladivostok - 21:00 on January 1, 2010, in Moscow - 14:00 on January 1, 2010, in London - 11:00 am on January 1, 2010.
Alexander Krivenyshev (World Time Zone)
Based on materials from http://www.deita.ru/?news,142424
30.12.2001 19:34 | M. E. Prokhorov/GAISH, Moscow
Every time the next New Year approached, I began to be interested in the question: “Where will he come first? Where will his journey around the Earth begin?”
In the last two years, this question interested not only me, but, of course, could not compete in popularity with the “question of the century”: “When will the new millennium begin - January 1, 2000 or 2001?”
This question actually contains several different questions. Some of them are related to physical phenomena, for example, when a given place on Earth ends average solar day December 31, 2001 or where will the Sun rise first on January 1, 2002?
In order to answer the first question, you need to find the easternmost point on Earth lying west of the date line. This is Cape Dezhnev in Chukotka (if you do not take into account the small islands lying slightly to the east). There it will happen two minutes earlier than on the Tonga Islands, and ten minutes earlier than on New Zealand's Chatham Islands. To determine the point of the earliest sunrise, it is necessary to take into account the latitude and longitude of the point, its altitude above sea level, time of year (winter in the Northern Hemisphere and summer in the Southern Hemisphere), etc. For example, on January 1, 2000, the earliest sunrise according to the Greenwich Observatory occurred on the island of Katchal, which is part of the protected Nicobar Islands group in the Bay of Bengal. Because of this, no one was able to celebrate the New Year there, and the very first meeting took place on the top of a mountain on Pitt Island, part of the Chatham Islands group subordinate to New Zealand.
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Another question is purely formal - where will January 1, 2002 come first according to the officially accepted time counting. Before discussing further, it’s worth looking at a number of pictures. The most convenient of them is a map time zones in cylindrical projection. The map was taken from the Educational Atlas of the World about 20 years ago (in fact, not too many changes have occurred on it during this time, you can read about the most important ones below). It shows that the Earth is divided into strips approximately 15° wide in longitude, in each of which a single time is set. Most often, time zone boundaries follow the borders of countries or their parts.
A very important detail on this map is. It passes along approximately 180° latitude, but experiences very interesting and important deviations for the issue we are considering. In the north, this line first deviates far to the east to go around Chukotka, and then to the west, going around the ridge of the Aleutian islands stretching from Alaska. Then the line goes exactly along the 180th longitude, deviating to the east just past New Zealand.
I always thought. that the New Year comes first to Chukotka, since it is located in the 12th time zone, and since in Russia it has been customary since the beginning of the 20th century maternity time(shifted 1 hour forward), then this is where the first phenomenon of the New Year occurs.
But everything turned out to be not so simple.
Howland Island
Baker Island
The problems with fresh drinking water sources here are the same as Howland's. Residents of the settlements had to collect rainwater.
At the moment, getting to Baker Island is not so easy; for this you need to obtain a special permit from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Dividing the world into time zones has its own quirks. So, for example, when in other places the calendar is already January 2, on two Pacific islands the New Year is just beginning. These are the uninhabited Howland and Baker Islands. Due to the fact that they are in the UTC-12 time zone, the New Year starts later than everyone else.
But the first to celebrate New Year's Eve are the residents of Kiribati, Christmas and Line islands. Their time zone is UTC+14, so when the time on Howland and Baker reads 11 o'clock and the calendar reads December 31st, the clock on Christmas Island will strike the hour after midnight on January 2nd.
Despite the fact that there are no people on Howland and Baker and only the United States Coast Guard can visit them, we can tell a lot of interesting things about these islands. To begin with, it is worth noting that they belong to and are part of a wildlife rescue program.
Howland Island
Howland Island has a very interesting history. This piece of land in the middle of the ocean was discovered in 1822 by George Bradley Worth, who was the captain of the whaling ship Oeno. At that time, the captain named the island after himself, but 6 years later it was discovered again by another captain, Daniel Mackenzie, who gave the island the name of the owner of the ship, Minevra. Well, the third captain who discovered this land was Geo Emery Netcher. This happened in 1842, then the island received the name Howland - that was the name of the sailor who noticed unfamiliar shores.
The first documented settlement was formed on the island in 1857. At that time it was very valuable because of the ability to mine guano. After all, as the law said, if an island is not under the jurisdiction of anyone other than the island, has no owners or local population, but has guano deposits on it, then any American can own all the land. But in 1886, the British who arrived on the island declared that the right to the territory belonged to them. Then British settlers appeared on Howland and mined guano for 5 years.
The dispute over the land was finally resolved only in 1936 after the colonization of the island by America. With the dawn of long-range aviation, Howland was a Pacific strategic base. Therefore, in 1937 they began to build a runway here. It was intended for the now famous aviator Amelia Earhart, who wanted to complete her flight around the world. However, the journey ended tragically - Earhart went missing in the vicinity of Howland.
Then the Japanese bombed the island during World War II. When the war ended, all attempts to settle Howland failed. The main problem was the lack of fresh sources. It also failed to make the island attractive to tourists. Local attractions include Itascatown ruins, airplane wrecks, and the Amelia Earhart Lighthouse. Then they decided to recognize Howland as uninhabited and make it a nature reserve.
Baker Island
The island was also discovered three times by three different captains. It received its name in honor of the third captain - Michael Baker. Unlike his predecessors, Captain Baker decided to officially make the island his own. To this day, the grave of one of the sailors of his ship remains on the island.
In 1855, the island was purchased by a guano mining company. Then the same story as Howland's is repeated with Baker Island: after Great Britain claims it, in 1935 America colonizes the land and sends its volunteers, who start a settlement called Myerton. By the beginning of World War II, an airstrip was being built, but it, along with the settlement itself, gradually fell into disrepair. And in 1974, Baker became a National Wildlife Refuge.
New Year is traditionally celebrated almost all over the world on December 31st. However, the dwarf Kingdom of Tonga in the Pacific Ocean is the first to celebrate the New Year. And they finish - in Haiti and Samoa - in 25 hours.
0.15 - Chatham Island (New Zealand), remote from the main islands of New Zealand, is located in a special time zone and is the second place where the New Year comes.
1.00 - New Zealand (Wellington, Auckland, etc.) and polar explorers from the South Pole in Antarctica celebrate the New Year.
2.00 - The New Year begins for residents of extreme eastern Russia (Anadyr, Kamchatka), the Fiji Islands and some other Pacific islands (Nauru, Tuvalu, etc.)
2.30 - Norfolk Island (Australia).
3.00 - Part of eastern Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra) and some Pacific islands (Vanuatu, Micronesia, Solomon Islands, etc.).
January 1 is an ordinary day and on Iran. The country lives according to the Persian calendar. New Year is celebrated in Iran on the vernal equinox - March 21. The holiday is called Navruz, that is, a new day.
In a multicultural India There are so many holidays that if we had to celebrate everything, there would be no time to work. Therefore, some of them have become "holidays by choice." On these days, all institutions and offices are open, but employees can take time off. January 1st is one of these holidays. March 22 marks the New Year according to the unified national calendar of India. In Kerala, New Year is celebrated on April 13th. It is called Vishu. Sikhs celebrate their New Year - Vaisakhi - on the same day. In South India, Divapali is widely celebrated in the fall, which also signifies the arrival of the new year. This is not a complete list of New Year's days that can be celebrated in India. By the way, among the “holidays to choose from” there is also Catholic Christmas.
IN South Korea January 1 is a day off. Decorated Christmas trees and Santa Clauses are common here, but the beginning of the year in Korea is perceived not as a holiday, but as an additional day off, which can be spent in a pleasant circle of family and friends. But if anything is celebrated on an unprecedented scale, it is Seollal - New Year according to the lunar calendar. On this day, most Koreans go to their hometowns to honor their ancestors.