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  3. Caroline Atoll, also called Thornton Island or Millennium Island. Coral formation in the Central and Southern Line Islands, part of Kiribati, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

  4. Caroline, or Millennium Island, renamed for the fact that it was first land on which the sun rose at the turn of the millennium. (Thanks to a bit of time-zone jugglery.)

    -9.966636° -150.209072°

    Interestingly, a monument there which commemorates this event dates it January 1 2000, which was actually the beginning of the last year of the 2nd millennium, not the beginning of the 3rd.
    http://www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#view=photo&position=5958&with_photo_id=66851907&order=date_desc&user=462736

  5. Caroline Island or Caroline Atoll (also known as Millennium Island and Beccisa Island), is the easternmost of the uninhabited coral atolls which comprise the southern Line Islands in the central Pacific Ocean

  8. Caroline Island, or Millennium Island, a good place to celebrate New Year’s.

  9. Caroline Island, first place that celebrates the New Year every year. Bet *they* didn’t have a Y2K panic!

  11. caroline island9

    9°56’13.1″S 150°12’41.4″W
    -9.936981, -150.211500

  12. Caroline Island or Caroline Atoll (also known as Millennium Island and Beccisa Island), is the easternmost of the uninhabited coral atolls which comprise the southern Line Islands in the central Pacific Ocean.

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