Technically speaking, however, sunlight continued to shine on at least one portion of British-occupied land for about another six months. The primary holdout? A section of the British Antarctic ...

and the phrase ‘the sun never sets on the British Empire’ is no longer true. But we will have to wait until next year to see ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

It was the epicentre of a vast empire once and was called ‘the empire on which the sun never sets.’ That was in the 18th & ...