Seeing in the New Year

[gerisullivan]

It's not 1899, and I'm not on board the S.S. Warrimoo, so I won't be straddling two different hemispheres, days, months, years, seasons, and centuries, all at the same time come New Year's Eve. But I'm nonetheless delighted to know of the clever Captain John Phillips who slightly altered the steamer's course and engine speed to bring the unique celebration to pass.


With a tip o'the link hat to Improbable Research and further info from the Fellowship of First Fleeters.

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

The century beginning with "18", however, did end in 1899, and it's just as legitimate a century as the so-called "19th," I say so-called because not only was there no year 0, there was no year 1 or even 100, the system not having been invented until much later.