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If the term "midnight sun" sounds poetic to you, that's because it was first written by a poet.
The provocative term "Midnight Sun" was first written and published by Yukon poet Robert Service. The term appears in the opening line of his famous poem, "The Cremation of Sam McGee". Published 1907.. "There are strange things done 'neath the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold."
Bonsaijerry (
talk) 20:58, 5 July 2011 (UTC)reply
What if it sounds neither poetic nor provocative to someone, but simply like a straightforward description of the phenomenon? I, for one, see no objective reason why it should sound poetic or provocative, unless you do not know that the phenomenon really exists. --
Florian Blaschke (
talk) 21:39, 11 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Countries in arctic circle like to advertise themselves as "land of the midnight sun", but they forget to mention that it is also a land of 3 months darkness :)) — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
95.156.175.53 (
talk) 14:57, 4 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Where's the contradiction? Also, except in the highest latitudes, you still get at least a bit of twilight around noon even at the winter solstice. And even in days of total darkness (which are only found close to the poles where almost nobody lives), you frequently get not only moonlight, but also northern lights livening things up! --
Florian Blaschke (
talk) 18:13, 18 June 2015 (UTC)reply
What has the time-lapse video (File:Sunrise at 63°N.ogv) about a December sunrise to do with midnight sun? There must certainly be some other video more suitable for the purposes of this article.
188.67.94.113 (
talk) 11:04, 19 March 2013 (UTC)reply
In the southern hemisphere, the midnight sun can only be observed in the Antarctic, where there are no settlements apart from the personnel of a number of research stations, so a northern hemisphere bias is inevitable. --
Florian Blaschke (
talk) 18:13, 18 June 2015 (UTC)reply
What about America?
There seems to be a conspiracy to downplay
Barrow, Alaska as a place where Americans experience the midnight sun. The mention of any part of USA close enough to the North Pole to have daylight for 8 or 9 weeks is buried so far into the article, that if I weren't a determined reader I never would have found it. Is it really necessary to be so international as to avoid promoting this valuable information?
It's even worse in the
Arctic circle article, which is where I originally came today - looking for the midnight sun. It was a lot easier to find
off-site. --
Uncle Ed (
talk) 13:29, 1 May 2017 (UTC)reply
So, according to this article, it seems that Midsommar's premise ("Daylight at 9PM" is actually based on fact?)
I came here because I wanted to know if there were places on earth where the sun didn't set. This led me to a phrase "Land of the Midnight Sun" which led me to the wikipedia article for "Midnight sun". I haven't even finished watching the trailer, I literally came here because i Just needed to know if it was true or not, but it looks like *at least for 24 hours* there is a day of pure sunlight in sweden even at 9PM.
I think the movie might go into a direction where it goes days/weeks (I dunno) and I was trying to find out if there are places where there is *extensive* sunlight, and yes:
"In Svalbard, Norway, the northernmost inhabited region of Europe, there is no sunset from approximately 19 April to 23 August. "
So okay, that's months. So basically, I learned something today. There are places on earth where the sun doesn't set for days, weeks and months. Wow.
Please correct me / clarify this for me, thank you.
-Wikipedia fan / lover / reader — Preceding
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72.234.183.87 (
talk) 18:04, 14 May 2019 (UTC)reply
Edit: Wow, and the title "midnight sun", reading above, comes from this poem:
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun
Yes, it's true; it's an amazing phenomenon that was already remarked upon by
Pytheas. In fact, in the Arctic and Antarctic, the
golden hour lasts for months, because the sun is always above the horizon, but also always low in the sky. The drawback of this is that it is always cold, as the heat of the sun is so weak, and that the winters are both extremely dark (only a bit of twilight around noon, and sometimes not even this) and extremely cold. (Hence polar days and polar nights.) It must be very pretty, but you need to be really fine with icy temperatures. You also get long periods of twilight that can last months, and a
blue hour that lasts for days or weeks, as comfort, so if you're a photographer who really doesn't mind the cold, or even enjoys it, then the polar zones are really worth a journey.
It's really worth mentioning that even outside of the midnight sun period, you get periods of White Nights in summer (during the polar day) in the polar regions. --
Florian Blaschke (
talk) 20:30, 7 November 2020 (UTC)reply
Oh, and as described in the article, subpolar regions – such as found in Northern Europe – are less extreme, with "only" White Nights in early summer, and it is in these regions that Midsommar is celebrated for the most part, where the temperatures are more pleasant, with relatively mild early summer nights. --
Florian Blaschke (
talk) 20:35, 7 November 2020 (UTC)reply
Correction
The picture of
Pori was not taken at midnight.
תיל"ם (
talk) 07:30, 19 November 2021 (UTC)reply
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The last paragraph in the Time zones and daylight saving time section ("When it rotates on its own axis…") is more of a joke I guess which should be deleted.
Javítgató (
talk) 08:09, 31 August 2023 (UTC)reply