It looks like it should be theoretically possible to have the sun set on the Empire not just with a total eclipse on Pitcairn, but alternatively with one over t

It looks like it should be theoretically possible to have the sun set on the Empire not just with a total eclipse on Pitcairn, but alternatively with one over the British Indian Ocean Territory. The BIOT is perhaps best known in these circles for its .io domain names, or elsewhere as the site of a genocide of the natives by the British armed forces in the 1970s. The next British territory west of the BIOT is Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus. [0] The next territory east is Pitcairn. When it's 06:30 in Cyprus in the winter, it's 20:30 in Pitcairn. The sun will have set about 75 minutes previously on the latter [1], and won't rise for another 15 minutes in the former [2], so there's an hour and a half each day where the BIOT, not Pitcairn, is the only British territory where it's daytime. And... there's a total solar eclipse coming up there as soon as 2027! [3] Unfortunately it's in the summer, in the evening, and it won't be total over the whole territory at the same time (though another eclipse could be). So it doesn't quite qualify, but to fully answer this question, the BIOT needs to be considered. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Overseas_Territories https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Overseas_Territories [1] https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/biot/diego-garcia?month=12&year=2024 https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/biot/diego-garcia?month=12&y... [2] https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/cyprus/nicosia?month=12&year=2024 https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/cyprus/nicosia?month=12&year... [3] https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/biot?iso=20270802 https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/biot?iso=20270802