Wellington - New Zealand's Pitt Island will be the first to greet the millennium dawn, but the world won't see live pictures of their first sunrise. Technical difficulties have prompted host broadcaster, Canadian-owned TV3, to back out of plans for a live link-up from Pitt Island, population 20.
The first available live footage of the new millennium dawn will instead come from Rangaika, a farm on Chatham Island, 90 seconds after the Pitt Island dawn.
