Midnight sun, also known as polar day, is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, when the Sun remains visible at t
Midnight sun at the North Cape on the island of Magerøya in Norway
Multiple exposure of midnight sun on Lake Ozhogino in Yakutia, Russia
Embankment of the Neva river in Saint Petersburg, 23:30 local time, 22 June 2013
Summer night in the city of Luleå, Sweden on May 30, 2013. Although the sun sets, it remains light throughout the night.
Svalbard, formerly Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it lies about midway betwe
Midnight sun
…Finland's territory lies north of the Arctic Circle, and at the country's northernmost point the Sun does not set at all for 72 days during summer. In Svalbard, Norway, the northernmost inhabited region of Europe, there is no sunset from approximately 19 April to 23 August. In mainland Norway, cities above the Arctic…
The whaling station of the Amsterdam chamber of the Northern Company in Smeerenburg, by Cornelis de Man (1639), but based on a painting of a Dansk hvalfangststation (Danish whaling station) by A.B.R. Speeck (1634), which represented the Danish station in Copenhagen Bay (Kobbefjorden)
Demolition of the wireless station during Operation Gauntlet in 1941
Abandoned aerial tramway previously used for transporting coal
The dock house in Barentsburg