Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/03/17
By: Chen Chih-chung and Kuan-lin Liu
Taipei, March 17 (CNA) The Guinness World Records, the international authority of
Photo courtesy of Chinese Culture University
records set in human achievements and natural phenomenon, has officially recognized the nearly nine-hour rainbow observed from the Chinese Culture University (CCU) in Taipei City last year as the world’s longest-lasting rainbow.
Official Guinness World Records adjudicator John Garland presented a certificate to CCU on Saturday for meticulously documenting the rainbow.
According to the university’s data, the rainbow, which appeared on Nov. 30, lasted from 6:57 a.m. to 3.55 p.m., or just shy of nine hours.
It beat the previous record of a six-hour rainbow held by Wetherby, Yorkshire in the United Kingdom in 1994 by nearly three hours. [FULL STORY]
