Solar eclipse of June 21, 2001

The total solar eclipse of 21 June 2001 was the first central eclipse of the third millennium and had a maximum totality duration of nearly five minutes. The zone of totality began east of South America in the Atlantic and even before the umbra met on the African continent, the maximum of the eclipse was reached. The corridor of the total eclipse lasted in Southern Africa through Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Before the darkness in the southern Indian Ocean ended, crossed the umbra or Madagascar. The most visited destination for observing the eclipse was Zambia and in particular the capital, Lusaka, which lay in the zone of totality.

From Europe, the eclipse was not observed.