See In The New Year Around the World… From London

22/11/2006

If you want to celebrate New Year around the clock, you literally can. The start of 2007 will happen 37 times around the world, giving you 37 excuses to raise a celebratory glass or two.

It will all kick off at 10am GMT on December 31st 2006 when Kiritimati on the Christmas Islands will enter 2007 first.

Fifteen minutes later at 10.15am, Chatham Island outside New Zealand will be the second place on earth to move into 2007.

At 11am GMT, New Zealand, Tonga and the South Pole base will be among the next to go, followed an hour later by parts of eastern Russia, Fiji and some Pacific Islands.

And on it goes……follow our table below so you can plan your global 2006 new year celebrations right here in London.

GMT 31^st December 2006	Where 2007 starts
12.30	Norfolk Island, Australia
13.00	Parts of eastern Australia and some pacific islands
13.30	South Australia
14.00	Queensland, Australia, Vladivostock and some far eastern Pacific islands
14.30	Northern Territory, Australia
15.00	Japan and Korea
16.00	China, parts of south-east Asia and rest of Australia
17.00	Indonesia and rest of south east Asia
17.30	Myanmar
18.00	Bangladesh and parts of Russia
18.15	Nepal
18.30	All of India and Sri Lanka
19.00	Most of Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgystan and parts of Russia
19.30	Afghanistan
20.00	Armenia, Azerbaijan, parts of Russia and Arabian, some islands in the Indian Ocean
20.30	Iran
21.00	Most of western Asia and Arabia, parts of Russia and eastern parts of Africa
22.00	Eastern Europe and Turkey, parts of Africa
23.00	Western Europe, parts of Africa
24.00	London, Portugal, Iceland, western Africa

And if you’re still standing after you’ve celebrated in style at London’s largest New Year’s Eve party at the New Connaught Rooms, WC2, you can continue to see the new year in another 13 times. That is until 11am GMT, 1st January 2007, when Samoa will become the last place on earth to enter 2007.

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GMT

Where 2007 starts