Watching the sunrise is akin to experiencing the most serene natural phenomenon on Earth. With an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,760 kilometres), Earth is the largest terrestrial planet. Do you know where the sun rises first on this large terrestrial planet? According to research published by a scholar named Cameron Hummel, Millennium Island is often the first place on Earth to welcome the sun. This island is Kiribati’s easternmost uninhabited island and is also known as Caroline Island. Due to this reason, Kiribati has the earliest time zone on Earth, UTC (Coordinated Universal Time or Universal Time Coordinated) +14. For those who don’t know, the time zone is a zone on the terrestrial globe that is approximately 15 degrees longitude wide. It extends from pole to pole and within which a uniform clock time is used.
Talking further about this phenomenon, Cameron said in an interview that from a physical perspective, there isn’t a first sunrise. He is a postdoctoral scholar of theoretical astrophysics at Caltech. According to him, there’s just a series of perpetual sunrises happening farther and farther to the west — no true first, no true last.
The international date line juts out nearly 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometres) east of Kiribati, a collection of islands straddling the equator. An equator is an imaginary line around the middle of a planet or other celestial body. It is halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole.
What is the International Date Line?
The international date line passes through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, mostly along the 180th-longitude line. It’s mostly a straight line, there are some points where it deviates so as to avoid splitting a country into two time zones, or for political and economic reasons.
Where did the first sunrise occur in India?
In India, the sunrise was first seen in India in the small town of Dong in the Anjaw district of the state of Arunachal Pradesh. This is one of the most serene places to visit. At 1,240 metres above sea level, Dong is located at the confluence of the rivers Lohit, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, and Sati. This village is strategically situated between China and Myanmar.
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