A PLACE ON EARTH WHERE THE SUN NEVER GOES DOWN...(THE MIDNIGHT SUN)...

CLEFNET reviews places on earth where the sun remains visible at the local midnight...

 In the local summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, the sun remains visible at the local midnight. This is a  Natural Phenomenon called the "Midnight Sun."

Around the summer solstice (approximately 21 June in the north and 22 December in the south) the sun is visible for the full 24 hours, given fair weather.

In the south of the Antarctic Circle there are no really permanent economically autonomous human settlements  only research stations, so only the countries and territories whose populations experience it are limited to those crossed by the Arctic Circle. These countries include Canada(Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut), Greenland, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States(Alaska).

A quarter of Finland's territory lies north of the Arctic Circle and at the country's northernmost point the sun does not set at all for 60 days during summer. In Svalbard, Norway, the northernmost inhabited region of Europe, there is no sunset from approximately 19 April to 23 August. The extreme sites are the poles where the sun can be continuously visible for a half year.

At the poles themselves, the sun rises and sets only once each year. During the six months that the sun is above the horizon, it spends the days continuously moving in circles around the observer, gradually spiralling higher and reaching its highest circuit of the sky at the summer solstice.

 Iceland is known for its midnight sun, even though most of it (Grímsey is the exception) is slightly south of the Arctic Circle. For the same reasons, the period of sunlight at the poles is slightly longer than six months. Even the northern extremities of Scotland (and those places on similar latitudes such as St. Petersburg) experience twilight in the northern sky at around the summer solstice.