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A series of islands in the Pacific Ocean competed for the premiere: who will see first
The new millennium is dawning. Fiji struggled with Tonga, though
The first to see the new thousand are a few dozen residents of Pitt Island, one
From the Chatham Islands group in New Zealand, 800 km from Wellington, the capital of New Zealand
Zeeland. The first rays will fall on Mount Hakapa, most of its area and summit
are owned by the farmers Ken and Yves Lenoz and their family. the northern rebel of
The mountain belonged to another farmer, James Moffat, which caused the first neighborly quarrel
in a thousand years.
Already at the beginning of the year, experts were called to determine which part of the tiny island
Will see first next year. Astronomers say the debut is actually
of the Dibble Glacier in Antarctica, but the first inhabited place he will see
The dawn is Pitt Island, with its 55 inhabitants, thousands of sheep and tens of thousands
The seals are there. The Royal Geographical Society of London also stated that
Mount Hakapa will be the first to see the sun in the new millennium.
When the place was determined, the race for the rights began: the broadcasting and photography rights of
the first morning Many TV stations asked to be located at Lenoz Farm
And they were willing to pay for it, but the Lanoz family proved loyal
For the homeland and the absence of greed: the rights were received by the New Zealand government,
And more precisely, the New Zealand Channel 3. In August it was announced in an official announcement that
The government paid 200 thousand New Zealand dollars (about 100 thousand dollars)
For the right to broadcast the dawn. The money will be transferred to the charity fund in his name in Greece
Lenoz, the family member who was killed in a fishing accident, and will be dedicated to education and activities
community for the residents of the island. CNN's offer - 500 thousand dollars
- They politely declined, according to them. Roca Lenoz said that the agreement leaves in their hands the
The right to negotiate stills and broadcast rights
to the Internet of the great event. "We got what we wanted, and they got it
Whatever they wanted," he said. "They are lucky with us. To their delight, we are patriots."
On the website that operates on behalf of Pitt Island on the Internet
(millennium.pittisland.co.nz) The family spokesman, Robert Lenoz, is contacted.
to the visitors, and offers them to come experience the event in their own body, and stay
Rosh Hashanah in the Chatham Islands.
40 minutes after Mount Hakapa, the sun's rays will fall on Mount Hikurangi, near
Gisborne in New Zealand. There the New Zealand Millennium Ministry offered the tribe
Ngati spent about 400 dollars to perform a dawn ceremony for 2,500 people,
including 400 official guests. And these are the sunrise times on January 1, 2000
In New Zealand: on Pitt Island the sun will rise at 5:04, on the Chatham Islands two minutes later
Thus, in Gisborne at 5:46 in Wellington at 5:51 and in Auckland at 6:05
Anyway, Ken Lanoz, an honest man, warned the TV people they actually were
Bettors: On the morning of January 1st, the odds are high that Pitt Island will be wet
in heavy fog. It has already happened to the Japanese: at the dawn of 1990, a company asked
Japanese TV to broadcast live from Mt Hakapa, but because of the weather
Had to broadcast a recording of the sunrise there.
"Haaretz" service
{Appeared in Haaretz newspaper, 21/12/1999{
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