Santa Tracker LIVE: Follow Father Christmas’s journey around the world

Father Christmas is ready to go!

Santa has begun his journey to deliver Christmas presents around the world, and you’re able to track his process here.

The famous Norad Santa tracker is operated by the North American Aerospace Defence Command and has been running for more than 60 years.

Santa is beginning his deliveries on the International Date Line before heading westwards throughout Christmas Eve - follow along here to see where he’s got to.

For the latest updates of where he is please scroll down.

Australia nearly done

15:27 , Tom Place

Australia is massive, isn’t it?

Father Christmas has nearly done down under - he’s now delivering to Perth on Australia’s west coast.

We’re over 1.5 billion gifts delivered now.

Over 1 billion gifts delivered

14:13 , Tom Place

Santa has now delivered over a billion gifts already, and he’s still barely started covering Asia.

He’s working his way around Japan now - the good boys and girls of Tokyo have just received their presents.

Back to Australia

13:51 , Tom Place

Santa is back in Australia now.

He seems to be fairly diligently going from east to west - not the most efficient route, but as long as the reindeer can keep to their pace, not a problem!

Off to Russia

12:53 , Tom Place

We’re done with Oceania for now - Santa’s has headed north, and is working his way round Russia’s east coast.

Santa hits NZ

11:50 , Tom Place

Father Christmas has reached New Zealand - he’s already delivered to Auckland, and is now working his way down the North Island.

We expect he’ll be heading to Antarctica next, as he reaches 300million gifts delivered.

Current location: South Pacific

11:32 , Tom Place

Santa has moved on to the islands of Oceania now.

He’s delivered to the Marshall Islands and Nauru, and is now headed to Kiribati.

He’s delivered almost 200 million gifts already!

And he's off!

11:07 , Tom Place

Norad confirm that Santa has now finally left the North Pole.

He is currently headed for Uelen, Russia, and has apparently already delivered more than 42 million gifts - he doesn’t mess around when he gets going, does he?

Setting off late

10:36 , Tom Place

The Norad tracker now says Santa will take off within the hour - he might be cutting it fine...

We'll be kicking off shortly

10:05 , Tom Place

To deliver presents to every household in one night, Santa is going to have to cover the world at about 1,300 miles per second - roughly 6,000 times the speed of sound.

Current location: North Pole

09:45 , Tom Place

Santa is still in “Santa's Village, North Pole” according to the tracker - no doubt making final checks, loading the last few presents, and making sure his reindeer are fed and watered.

We expect his first stop to be on the International Date line - perhaps Kiribati?

Santa is ready to go

09:25 , Tom Place

Norad have confirmed that current conditions at the North Pole indicate good weather for flying.

He’ll be jetting off soon, and we’ll update you when he reaches his first destination.