2013 Kicks Off on Christmas Island, Moving West

Happy new year

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Happy new year! At least to those on Christmas Island. The Australian territory rang in 2013 at 5 a.m. ET on Monday. So did Kiribati and Samoa. They were the first populated places to do so.

More populous areas, including New Zealand, started a new calendar just an hour later, joined by Fiji and Tonga.