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International Date Line, the Glossary

The International Date Line (IDL) is the line between the South and North Poles that is the boundary between one calendar day and the next.^[1]

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Abulfeda

Ismāʿīl bin ʿAlī bin Maḥmūd bin Muḥammad bin ʿUmar bin Shāhanshāh bin Ayyūb bin Shādī bin Marwān (إسماعيل بن علي بن محمود بن محمد بن عمر بن شاهنشاه بن أيوب بن شادي بن مروان), better known as Abū al-Fidāʾ or Abulfeda (أبو الفداء; November 127327 October 1331), was a Mamluk-era Kurdish geographer, historian, Ayyubid prince and local governor of Hama.

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Acapulco

Acapulco de Juárez, commonly called Acapulco (Acapolco), is a city and major seaport in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, south of Mexico City.

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Alaska Day

Alaska Day is a legal holiday in the U.S. state of Alaska, observed on October 18.

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Aleutian Islands

The Aleutian Islands (Unangam Tanangin, "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi aliat, or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands, or, before 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain of 14 main, larger volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones.

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American Samoa

American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the South Pacific Ocean.

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Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station

The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United States scientific research station at the South Pole of the Earth.

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Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea

The Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea was a conference held in London in June 1917.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Armand Joseph Bruat

Armand Joseph Bruat (Colmar, 26 May 1796 – Montebello, off Toulon, 19 November 1855) was a French admiral.

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Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days (Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Atoll

An atoll is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon.

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Attu Island

Attu (Atan, Атту) is an island in the Near Islands (part of the Aleutian Islands chain).

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Auckland

Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of as of It is the most populous city of New Zealand and the fifth largest city in Oceania.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Associated Press

Australian Associated Press (AAP) is an Australian news agency.

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Baker Island

Baker Island, formerly known as New Nantucket, is an uninhabited atoll just north of the Equator in the central Pacific Ocean about southwest of Honolulu.

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Bering Strait

The Bering Strait (Beringov proliv) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska. International Date Line and Bering Strait are Bering Sea.

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Bonin Islands

The Bonin Islands, also known as the Ogasawara Islands (小笠原諸島), is a Japanese archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands located around SSE of Tokyo and northwest of Guam.

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Cape Horn

Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island.

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Cape of Good Hope

The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.

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Cape Verde

Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about.

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Captaincy General of the Philippines

The Captaincy General of the Philippines was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire in Southeast Asia governed by a governor-general as a dependency of the Viceroyalty of New Spain based in Mexico City until Mexican independence when it was transferred directly to Madrid.

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Caroline Island

Caroline Island (also known as Caroline Atoll or Millennium Island) is the easternmost of several uninhabited coral atolls comprising the southern Line Islands in the central Pacific Ocean nation of Kiribati.

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Caroline Islands

The Caroline Islands (or the Carolines) are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea.

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Cartography

Cartography (from χάρτης chartēs, 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and γράφειν graphein, 'write') is the study and practice of making and using maps.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Chatham Islands

The Chatham Islands (Moriori: Rēkohu, 'Misty Sun'; Wharekauri) are an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about east of New Zealand's South Island, administered as part of New Zealand, and consisting of about 10 islands within an approximate radius, the largest of which are Chatham Island and Pitt Island (''Rangiauria'').

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.

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Chukchi Peninsula

The Chukchi Peninsula (also Chukotka Peninsula or Chukotski Peninsula; Чуко́тский полуо́стров, Chukotskiy poluostrov, short form Чуко́тка, Chukotka), at about 66° N 172° W, is the easternmost peninsula of Asia.

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Circumnavigation

Circumnavigation is the complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon).

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Commander Islands

The Commander Islands, Komandorski Islands, or Komandorskie Islands (Командо́рские острова́, Komandorskiye ostrova) are a series of islands in the Russian Far East, a part of the Aleutian Islands, located about east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Bering Sea.

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Cook Islands

The Cook Islands (Rarotongan: Kūki ‘Airani; Kūki Airani) is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.

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Daylight saving time

Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.

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De facto

De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.

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De jure

In law and government, de jure describes practices that are legally recognized, regardless of whether the practice exists in reality.

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December solstice

The December solstice, also known as the southern solstice, is the solstice that occurs each December – typically on 21 December, but may vary by one day in either direction according to the Gregorian calendar.

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Diomede Islands

The Diomede Islands (translit), also known in Russia as Gvozdev Islands (translit), consist of two rocky, mesa-like islands.

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Dutch East Indies

The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Nederlands(ch)-Indië) and Dutch Indonesia, was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.

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Equator

The equator is a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

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Equinox

A solar equinox is a moment in time when the Sun crosses the Earth's equator, which is to say, appears directly above the equator, rather than north or south of the equator.

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Expulsions and exoduses of Jews

This article lists expulsions, refugee crises and other forms of displacement that have affected Jews.

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Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan (1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies, which achieved the first circumnavigation of Earth in history.

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Fiji

Fiji (Viti,; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Franco-Tahitian War

The Franco-Tahitian War (Guerre franco-tahitienne) or French–Tahitian War (1844–1847) was a conflict between the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Tahiti and its allies in the South Pacific archipelago of the Society Islands in modern-day French Polynesia.

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French Polynesia

French Polynesia (Polynésie française; Pōrīnetia Farāni) is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole overseas country.

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Friday prayer

In Islam, Friday prayer, or Congregational prayer (translit) is a community prayer service held once a week on Fridays.

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Gasparo Contarini

Gasparo Contarini (16 October 1483 – 24 August 1542) was an Italian diplomat, cardinal, and Bishop of Belluno.

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Gilbert Islands

The Gilbert Islands (Tungaru;Reilly Ridgell. Pacific Nations and Territories: The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia. 3rd. Ed. Honolulu: Bess Press, 1995. p. 95. formerly Kingsmill or King's-Mill IslandsVery often, this name applied only to the southern islands of the archipelago, the northern half being designated as the Scarborough Islands.

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Gore (segment)

A gore is a sector of a curved surface or the curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe and may be flattened to a plane surface with little distortion.

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Greenwich Mean Time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the local mean time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight.

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Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world.

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Guam

Guam (Guåhan) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Herald Sun

The Herald Sun is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the Murdoch owned News Corp. The Herald Sun primarily serves Melbourne and the state of Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia.

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History of Hong Kong (1800s–1930s)

Hong Kong (1800s–1930s) oversaw the founding of the new crown colony of Hong Kong under the British Empire.

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History of the Philippines (1565–1898)

The history of the Philippines from 1565 to 1898 is known as the Spanish colonial period, during which the Philippine Islands were ruled as the Captaincy General of the Philippines within the Spanish East Indies, initially under the Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, until the independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain in 1821.

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HM Nautical Almanac Office

His Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office (HMNAO), now part of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, was established in 1832 on the site of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG), where The Nautical Almanac had been published since 1767.

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Howland Island

Howland Island is an uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about southwest of Honolulu.

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IERS Reference Meridian

The IERS Reference Meridian (IRM), also called the International Reference Meridian, is the prime meridian (0° longitude) maintained by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS).

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Independence Day (United States)

Independence Day, known colloquially as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States which commemorates the ratification of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.

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International Meridian Conference

The International Meridian Conference was a conference held in October 1884 in Washington, D.C., in the United States, to determine a prime meridian for international use.

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Islamic calendar

The Hijri calendar (translit), or Arabic calendar also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.

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Jean Passepartout

Jean Passepartout is a fictional character in Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days, published in 1873.

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Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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Julian calendar

The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception).

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June solstice

The June solstice is the solstice on Earth that occurs annually between 20 and 22 June according to the Gregorian calendar.

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Kamchatka Time

Kamchatka Time or Petropavlovsk Time (PETT; камчатское время, kamchatskoye vremya), also known as Anadyr Time (ANAT), is a time zone in Russia, named after the Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Kermadec Islands

The Kermadec Islands (Rangitāhua) are a subtropical island arc in the South Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand's North Island, and a similar distance southwest of Tonga.

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Kiribati

Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati (Ribaberiki Kiribati),.

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Kiritimati

Kiritimati (also known as Christmas Island) is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands.

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Kwajalein Atoll

Kwajalein Atoll (Marshallese: Kuwajleen) is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI).

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Line Islands

The Line Islands, Teraina Islands or Equatorial Islands (Aono Raina) are a chain of 11 atolls (with partly or fully enclosed lagoons, except Vostok and Jarvis) and coral islands (with a surrounding reef) in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the Hawaiian Islands.

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London Missionary Society

The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister Edward Williams.

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Magellan expedition

The Magellan expedition, sometimes termed the MagellanElcano expedition, was a 16th-century Spanish expedition planned and led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.

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Malietoa Laupepa

Susuga Malietoa Laupepa (1841 – 22 August 1898) was the ruler (Malietoa) of Samoa in the late 19th century.

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Mariana Islands

The Mariana Islands (Manislan Mariånas), also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east.

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Marshall Islands

The Marshall Islands (Ṃajeḷ), officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ), is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.

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McMurdo Station

McMurdo Station is an American Antarctic research station on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand–claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica.

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Mecca

Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.

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Meridian (geography)

In geography and geodesy, a meridian is the locus connecting points of equal longitude, which is the angle (in degrees or other units) east or west of a given prime meridian (currently, the IERS Reference Meridian).

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Midnight sun

Midnight sun, also known as polar day, is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, when the Sun remains visible at the local midnight.

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Muslims

Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.

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Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa

Narciso José Anastasio Clavería y Zaldúa, 1st Count of Manila (Catalan: Narcís Josep Anastasi Claveria i Zaldua; May 2, 1795 – June 20, 1851) was a Spanish army officer who served as the Governor-General of the Philippines from July 16, 1844, to December 26, 1849.

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Nautical time

Nautical time is a maritime time standard established in the 1920s to allow ships on high seas to coordinate their local time with other ships, consistent with a long nautical tradition of accurate celestial navigation.

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New Spain

New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain.

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New Year

The New Year is the time or day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one.

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New York Post

The New York Post (NY Post) is an American conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Niue

Niue (Niuē) is a self-governing island country in free association with New Zealand.

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North Pole

The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole, Terrestrial North Pole or 90th Parallel North, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.

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Northern Mariana Islands

The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI; Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas; Commonwealth Téél Falúw kka Efáng llól Marianas), is an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States consisting of 14 islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Palau

Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific.

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Phileas Fogg

Phileas Fogg is the protagonist in the 1872 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Phoenix Islands

The Phoenix Islands, or Rawaki, are a group of eight atolls and two submerged coral reefs that lie east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, north of Samoa.

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Prime meridian (Greenwich)

The Greenwich meridian is a prime meridian, a geographical reference line that passes through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in London, England.

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Protectorate

A protectorate, in the context of international relations, is a state that is under protection by another state for defence against aggression and other violations of law.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Ramadan

Ramadan (Ramaḍān; also spelled Ramazan, Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm), prayer (salah), reflection, and community.

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Research stations in Antarctica

Multiple governments have set up permanent research stations in Antarctica and these bases are widely distributed.

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Ross Dependency

The Ross Dependency is a region of Antarctica defined by a sector originating at the South Pole, passing along longitudes 160° east to 150° west, and terminating at latitude 60° south.

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Royal Observatory, Greenwich

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG; known as the Old Royal Observatory from 1957 to 1998, when the working Royal Greenwich Observatory, RGO, temporarily moved south from Greenwich to Herstmonceux) is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooking the River Thames to the north.

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Russian colonization of North America

From 1732 to 1867, the Russian Empire laid claim to northern Pacific Coast territories in the Americas.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Sabbath in seventh-day churches

The seventh-day Sabbath, observed from Friday evening to Saturday evening, is an important part of the beliefs and practices of seventh-day churches.

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Samoa

Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono and Apolima); and several smaller, uninhabited islands, including the Aleipata Islands (Nu'utele, Nu'ulua, Fanuatapu and Namua).

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Samoan Islands

The Samoan Islands (Motu o Sāmoa) are an archipelago covering in the central South Pacific, forming part of Polynesia and of the wider region of Oceania.

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Scott Base

Scott Base is a New Zealand Antarctic research station at Pram Point on Ross Island near Mount Erebus in New Zealand's Ross Dependency territorial claim.

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Seventh Day Baptists

Seventh Day Baptists are Baptists who observe the Sabbath as the seventh day of the week, Saturday, as a holy day to God.

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Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tonga

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tonga, (Siasi ʻAhofitu) is one of the smaller religious groups in the South Pacific island state of Tonga, with a reported 3,853 members as of June 30, 2020.

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Seville

Seville (Sevilla) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville.

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Shabbat

Shabbat (or; Šabbāṯ) or the Sabbath, also called Shabbos by Ashkenazim, is Judaism's day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday.

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Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

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Sitka, Alaska

Sitka (Sheetʼká; Ситка) is a unified city-borough in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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South Pole

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipodally on the opposite side of Earth from the North Pole, at a distance of 20,004 km (12,430 miles) in all directions.

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St. Lawrence Island

St.

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St. Matthew Island

St.

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Tahiti

Tahiti (Tahitian) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia.

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Territorial waters

Territorial waters are informally an area of water where a sovereign state has jurisdiction, including internal waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone, and potentially the extended continental shelf (these components are sometimes collectively called the maritime zones).

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The Island of the Day Before

The Island of the Day Before (L'isola del giorno prima) is a 1994 historical fiction novel by Umberto Eco set in the 17th century during the historical search for the secret of longitude.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Time in Antarctica

Antarctica sits on every line of longitude because the South Pole is on the continent.

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Time in New Zealand

Time in New Zealand is divided by law into two standard time zones.

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Time zone

A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes.

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Tokelau

Tokelau (known previously as the Union Islands, and, until 1976, known officially as the Tokelau Islands) is a dependent territory of New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean.

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Tonga

Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania.

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Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI) was a United Nations trust territory in Micronesia administered by the United States from 1947 to 1994.

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Tuvalu

Tuvalu, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia.

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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator.

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UTC+12:00

UTC+12:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +12:00.

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UTC+13:00

UTC+13:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +13:00.

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UTC+14:00

UTC+14:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +14:00.

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UTC−10:00

UTC−10:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −10:00.

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UTC−11:00

UTC−11:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −11:00.

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UTC−12:00

UTC−12:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −12:00.

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Wake Island

Wake Island (kio flower), also known as Wake Atoll, is a coral atoll in the Micronesia subregion of the Pacific Ocean.

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Wallis and Futuna

Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands, is a French island collectivity in the South Pacific, situated between Tuvalu to the northwest, Fiji to the southwest, Tonga to the southeast, Samoa to the east, and Tokelau to the northeast.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line

Also known as Date Line, Date meridian, Internation Date Line West, International Dateline, Intl date line, Jewish date line, The international dateline.

, Gasparo Contarini, Gilbert Islands, Gore (segment), Greenwich Mean Time, Gregorian calendar, Guam, Hawaii, Herald Sun, History of Hong Kong (1800s–1930s), History of the Philippines (1565–1898), HM Nautical Almanac Office, Howland Island, IERS Reference Meridian, Independence Day (United States), Indian Ocean, International Meridian Conference, Islamic calendar, Jean Passepartout, Jules Verne, Julian calendar, June solstice, Kamchatka Time, Kermadec Islands, Kiribati, Kiritimati, Kwajalein Atoll, Line Islands, London Missionary Society, Magellan expedition, Malietoa Laupepa, Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, McMurdo Station, Mecca, Meridian (geography), Mexico, Midnight sun, Muslims, Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa, Nautical time, New Spain, New Year, New York Post, New Zealand, Niue, North Pole, Northern Mariana Islands, Pacific Ocean, Palau, Phileas Fogg, Philippines, Phoenix Islands, Prime meridian (Greenwich), Protectorate, Qing dynasty, Ramadan, Research stations in Antarctica, Ross Dependency, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Russian colonization of North America, Russian Empire, Sabbath in seventh-day churches, Samoa, Samoan Islands, Scott Base, Seventh Day Baptists, Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tonga, Seville, Shabbat, Siberia, Sitka, Alaska, South Pole, St. Lawrence Island, St. Matthew Island, Tahiti, Territorial waters, The Island of the Day Before, The New York Times, Time in Antarctica, Time in New Zealand, Time zone, Tokelau, Tonga, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Tuvalu, Umberto Eco, UTC+12:00, UTC+13:00, UTC+14:00, UTC−10:00, UTC−11:00, UTC−12:00, Wake Island, Wallis and Futuna, Wellington, Workweek and weekend, Wrangel Island, Zucchelli Station, 150th meridian west, 180th meridian.

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