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Analysis: How British Overseas Territories Maintain Continuous Sunlight Coverage

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bediger4000

9mo ago· 6 min readenInsight

Summary

The article examines whether the sun truly sets on the British Empire by analyzing the UK's remaining overseas territories. The author argues that due to strategically located territories like the Pitcairn Islands in the Pacific and the British Indian Ocean Territory, there is always at least one British territory experiencing sunlight at any given time, thus technically maintaining the historical claim that "the sun never sets on the British Empire."

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The UK's widely scattered overseas territories, sparse though they are, mean that the sun is still always shining, somewhere in the world, over British territory.
The most important territories in maintaining this late-empire sunlight are the Pitcairn Islands, in the Pacific, and the British Indian Ocean Territory, in the Indian Ocean.
I concluded that it doesn't [set] - the sun is still always shining, somewhere in the world, over British territory.
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A while ago I treated you to a dissertation entitled “Does The Sun Set On The British Empire?”, and concluded that it doesn’t. The UK’s widely scattered overseas territories, sparse tho…

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