June Solstice
Those Poms really think that Greenwich is the centre of the universe.
Mostly, the June Solstice occurs in Sydney on June 21 but on the year preceding a leap year it slips to June 22 before the leap year resets it back to June 21. Roughly speaking, the Earth takes ~365.24 days to orbit the sun, hence the Gregorian calendar attempts to keep the calendar in synch with the seasons by skipping the leap year every 100th year (..except every 400th year..you may remember that 2000 was a leap year).
As such, the year 1903 hadn’t had a leap year for 7 years and the solstice in Sydney slipped all the way to June 23. This was also the year that Edward VII was proclaimed Emperor of India. How are those poms, eh?
Anyway, as a quadrennial event a June 22 Solstice is woth celebrating on the BoTF in the traditional manner.
back of the ferry 
Historically speaking, the Meridian time was a point of reference for the calculation of longitutde for when Britain ruled the waves and formed penal colonies such as Australia.
Without the Meridian line which was temprraily arrested by Napolean – you would not have a point of reference for the chronometer and therefore no idea as to where you were in the ocean.
On a separate note, Queen Victoria was the first Empress of India. No doubt the lamberts were shackled and being deported to Australia for stealing bread at that time.
Incorrect.
The Lamberts were deported for stealing a chicken.
Also, Kelly Slater rules the waves. There has only been one British world champion and he was South African.
And Britain was one of the last countries to adopt the Gregorian Calendar in 1752 believing it was a Roman Catholic plot to increase interest payments. Prior to that, Poms had to adjust their watches by 11 days whenever they crossed the English Channel.
Hamilton’s part-time geneology points to the Lamberts being of German decent. Ich glaube das vielleicht deiner familiar hatte fur Adolf Hitler gearbeitet. – Ist das Richtig? Bist du einer Nazi?
I’d like to point out that the Gregorian is also not entirely accurate, as for example the recent Japanese earthquake shaved several seconds of the year as the earth moved marginally from it’s axial tilt.
date and time of solstices and …year.Equinox.Mar.Solstice.June.Equinox.Sept.Solstice.Dec…day.time.day.time.day.time.day.time…2004.20.06 49.21.00 57.22.16 30.21.12 42…2005.20.12 33.21.06 46.22.22 23.21.18 35…2006.20.18 26.21.12 26.23.04 03.22.00 22…2007.21.00 07.21.18 06.23.09 51.22.06 08…2008.20.05 48.20.23 59.22.15 44.21.12 04…2009.20.11 44.21.05 45.22.21 18.21.17 47…2010.20.17 32.21.11 28.23.03 09.21.23 38…2011.20.23 21.21.17 16.23.09 04.22.05 30…2012.20.05 14.20.23 09.22.14 49.21.11 12…2013.20.11 02.21.05 04.22.20 44.21.17 11…2014.20.16 57.21.10 51.23.02 29.21.23 03…2015.20.22 45.21.16 38.23.08 20.22.04 48…2016.20.04 30.20.22 34.22.14 21.21.10 44…2017.20.10 28.21.04 24.22.20 02.21.16 28…A solstice is an astronomical event that happens twice each when the s apparent position in the sky as viewed from Earth reaches its or extremes. At maximum or minimum elevation the relative yearly motion of the Sun perpendicular to the stops and reverses direction..The maximum elevation occurs at the summer solstice and the minimum at the winter solstice. .Animation of Earth as seen daily from the Sun looking at showing the solstice and changing seasons….The cause of the seasons is that the Earths axis of rotation is not perpendicular to its orbital plane the flat plane made through the center of mass of the solar system near or within the Sun and the successive locations of Earth during the year but currently makes an angle of about 23.44 called the and that the axis keeps its orientation with respect to an .