The First Sunrises of
And some other stuff too.

千禧晨光第一線 or Year 2000 Frist Sun Rise is one of my the most favourite Geocities pages ever created.
I think this simple sequence of the 10 GIFs perfectly captures the now long gone hopes and positive energy of the upcoming era.
(打爛埕頂山 / Shek O Peak, Hong Kong)

The Antarctic Sun from 1999-12-26:

Millennium sunrise
The sun rises over South East Island, Chatham Islands (New Zealand), at 5.45 a.m. on 1 January 2000.
The Chatham Islands was the first land to welcome the third millennium.

First sunrise of the year 2000 by Kevin Horan
The images was taken from the roof of the CITY2000 office building (Chicago).

Millennium Dawn Castlebar 1st January 2000 (Ireland)

Sunrise on the first day of the third millennium, CE... by Bernard John Poole

सहस्राब्दी का पहला सूर्योदय aka First Sunrise of The Millennium (India).
More photos here.

Sunset over Namibia and Sunrise over Namibia.
More photos here.

French Post Stamps: Vive L'an 2000 !, Troisième millénaire* and 2001 nouveau millenaire*.
Not sunrise, but still cool.
*Images downloaded from the Allegro auctions, the Polish online e-commerce platform

More sunrises:

Millennium Sunrise by Dan Young The Millennial Sunrise ▪ January 1, 2000 ▪ Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park by John Moran Sunset – Sunrise by Dun Giljan The sunsets over Brooklyn with The World Trade Centers over Manhattan by Dennis Occasional A winter's day sunset. New Years views of the World Trade Centers from Queens New York by Dennis Occasional Sunrise January 1st 2000. Ocean Beach, Whangarei Heads, New Zealand. by Simon Hinton Year 2000 First To See The Dawn - New Zealand's postcard stamps 1999/2000 Millennium Series VI - The Last Sunset / A New Dawn. - New Zealand's postcard stamps December 31, 1999 6:15 p.m. last evening of the millennium (New York) ^^^Please contact me if you know the original source of these photos.^^^ World Trade Center 1 / 1 / 00 by comateensnyc WTC New York City January 1 2001 by Duncan Rawlinson

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