A endless sunset, days that last 24 hours and entire months during which the sky and the earth are tinged with yellow-reddish tones. In other words, a natural phenomenon that causes fascination.
This phenomenon is known as midnight Sun and can be seen during the summer in some places of Antarctic Circle and north of the Arctic Circle. Its origin is linked to the rotation of the Earth.
Indeed our planet rotates with an axis inclined to the axis Sun. In this way, in the summer, the North Pole It is also tilted towards the sun, which does not set above the Arctic Circle for weeks.
What is the name of the place where it never gets dark?
Although there are several places where you can see the midnight sun, in one of them it lasts almost all summer. In this way, for four months, it can be said that, there, the day is infinite.
Together with the Northern Lights, visible during the winter, the midnight sun attracts more and more tourists Northern Norway. There the latter phenomenon lasts 76 days. But as you travel further north of the Arctic Circle, the extent increases.
Thus, according to the government of that country, the midnight sun lasts between June 12th and July 1st in the polar circle and extends from From June 4th to July 8th in Bodo; from 28 May to 14 July in the Lofoten Islands; from May 25 to July 18 in Harstad; from May 22nd to July 21st in Vesteralen; from May 20th to July 22nd in Vardo; from May 16 to July 27 at Hammerfest; and from 14 May to 29 July in the North Cape. In Svalbard, however, the phenomenon lasts from 20 April to 22 August.
As above the Arctic Circle in winter the darkness is total, in summer we witness the opposite phenomenon, endless days in which it never gets dark.Halfway between Mainland Norway and the North Pole, Svalbard They form an archipelago of approximately 61,000 km2. With around 2,500 inhabitants, its capital is Longyearbyen, a small city that concentrates almost all of the population.
The archipelago has belonged to Norway since 1920 and is the only place in the country where You do not need a visa to settle and live. Of course it is necessary to have sufficient financial means and to withstand the harsh climatic conditions (temperatures of -14º C in winter and only 6º C in summer).
The island of Spitsbergen, home to the most important World Seed Bank in the world, is also located in the Svalbardbank archipelago. With landscapes of glaciers, ice caves, snow-capped mountains and plains where around 3,000 polar bears roam, as well as reindeer and seals, the population lives on mining (coal), tourism and scientific research. Svalbard has the World Seed Bankwhich preserves seeds from all over the world.
The midnight sun attracts more and more tourists to Northern Norway.During the endless summer days, Svalbard hosts cultural activities and concertsand tourists appreciate its restaurants and bars.
Source: Clarin
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