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When (if ever) did the Sun set on the British Empire?
ally set on the British Empire? —Kurt Amundson It hasn't. Yet.
The exact day when the Sun stopped setting on the Empire was probably sometime in the late 1700s or early 1800s, when the first Australian territories were added. Every night, around midnight GMT, the Sun sets on the Cayman Islands, and doesn't rise over the British Indian Ocean Territory until after 1:00 AM. In fact, no total eclipse for the next thousand years will pass over the Pitcairn Islands at the right time of day to end the streak.
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