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From Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Finland to Alaska. We explore six places on earth where the sun never sets and never rises.
By: Rae Seleme
The are six places on earth: Finland, Alaska, Canada, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden where the sun does not set for more than 70 days.
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According to Travallax, the days in Finland, Alaska, Canada, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden never end as the sun never rises or sets.
The sun sets around midnight and rises at around 4 AM in Sweden from early May until late August. Continuous sunshine usually lasts up to six months a year.
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Norway is called the Land of the Midnight Sun because for 76 days (from May to late July) the sun never sets. The sun shines continuously in Svalbard, Norway from April 10 to August 23.
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Finland continuously sees the sun for 73 days during summer and sees no sunlight during winter. IndiaTimes reports that the Finnish sleep less in summer, and more during winter.
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Travellaax reports the sun doesn’t set in Fairbanks, Alaska from late May to July. The sun sets at 12:30 A.M. at the summer solstice because Fairbanks is 51 minutes ahead of its idealized time zone.
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Iceland is known for not having mosquitoes as summer nights are clear and the sun never sets in June. When people want to see the Midnight Sun, they visit the city of Akureyri and Grimsey Island in the Arctic Circle. It’s Europe’s largest island after Great Britain.
According to IndiaTimes, the people in Nunavut, Canada experience about 30 days of total darkness in winter and have two months of 24/7 sunlight in summer. Nunavut is located in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
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