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| | What's Bubbling January 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | A century ago the passenger steamer Warrimoo, commanded by Captain John Phillips, was sailing between Vancouver and Australia. |
 | | At exactly midnight, local time, the Warrimoo lay on the equator, at the point where it crosses the international date-line. |
 | | Further, if, like Warrimoo, the date-line is crossed at the equator, then for a moment the bow of the ship is in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is summer, while the stern is in the Northern Hemisphere, where it is winter. |
| www.rugbydivers.org /jan00pf.htm (405 words) |
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