Welcome to Disko Bay near the town of Ilulissat, Greenland, where summer"s midnight sun will dip just below the horizon for only about an hour and a half tonight. In fact, for several weeks in the period around the summer solstice, the sun doesn"t set at all on Disko Bay. Technically, the "midnight sun" occurs in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle when the sun remains visible at the local midnight. This natural phenomenon lasts from April to August in the northern regions of Greenland. (The opposite effect, polar night, occurs during winter months when the sun does not rise above the horizon.)
Going with the floe
Today in History
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In Apia Harbor for Samoan Independence Day
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Groundhog Day
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European Day of Parks
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3,000 years of history
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Watch your step
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The tortoise and the finch
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Class, please take out a No. 2 pencil…
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Bukhansan National Park, South Korea
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Penguin Awareness Day
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Oh, the places you’ll go
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Guild houses of Grand-Place, Brussels, Belgium
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American Eagle Day
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A towering view of the Pale Mountains
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European hedgehog
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A Bengal tiger in Ranthambore National Park, India
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Birds of the Drömling
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Spring comes to the Diablo foothills
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A cliffside harbor in Sardinia
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Observing World Braille Day in Bavaria
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Headed to the High Country
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Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Island, Australia
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My my, it s Syttende Mai
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Autumn comes to Old Town
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A long path to freedom
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Petrified Forest National Park
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Do spirits haunt the Gardens of Versailles?
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An ancient sailing tradition takes to the water
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Indigenous living
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Bay Marker Lookout, Sydney Olympic Park, Australia
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Sami lavvu structures, Finnmark, Norway