What country is known as land of the midnight sun?

Answer 1

The name can be applied to the region of Lapland, to Norway, or to Finland.

Lapland (or Sápmi in their own language) is not independent and is divided between Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia.

Answer 2

Norway is known as the "land of the midnight sun" due to its location within the Arctic Circle, where the sun remains visible for 24 hours during the summer solstice. This phenomenon occurs in northern parts of Norway such as Tromsø and Svalbard.

Answer 3

North of the Arctic Circle in the northern hemisphere, or south of the Antarctic Circle in the Southern Hemisphere, at midsummer the Sun doesn't go "down". The Sun stays up, and appears to just circle around the sky.

Take the town of Andenes, Norway, for example. Andenes is at 69 degrees north latitude. On March 21, on the Vernal Equinox, the Sun is directly over the equator, and at noon in Andenes, the Sun is 21 degrees above the southern horizon. At midnight that night, the Sun is on the other side of the world - but a midnight, is only 21 degrees BELOW the NORTHERN horizon!

Around the middle of May, the Sun makes its way north to about 21 degrees north of the equator. The noontime Sun is now at 42 degrees above the southern horizon, but now instead of going down in the west, the Sun swings around toward the west, slips off a bit to the north, comes right back around and touches the NORTHERN horizon - and then wanders a bit off to the east and starts rising again. I was there in May of 1973, in a US Navy P-3 Orion aircraft. We boarded the crew bus to go from the air base into town, and the officer assigned to accompany us was telling us a little about the town. I asked, "What time does the sun go down?" The Norwegian officer chucked and said "Late August!" My hotel room had heavy blackout curtains for people who couldn't sleep in the sunlight.

Even in areas below the Arctic Circle, the "midnight sun" affects people. In Iceland, the Sun may go down for a half-hour or so, but the sky never gets dark. Back from our mission to Andenes, we returned to our base in Keflavik, Iceland. We went to the club, watched the dancers, and got a little drunk, and then tried to walk back to the barracks at 2 AM. I assure you that there is no worse feeling that being a little drunk, walking out of a darkened lounge and stepping out into bright sunshine right in your eye at 2 o'clock in the morning. The sun had been down; but it was back up! Six months later it was worse; there was an hour of pre-dawn dusk, followed by an hour of the Sun barely creeping across the southern sky, and the immediately sinking away. That was at lunchtime! Then the Sun set and went far away, and we were left to find our own things to do in the utter darkness of a winter night. A 22-hour-long winter night!

Answer 4

No country is known as the Midnight Sun. The Midnight Sun is a term used to describe the time during Summer when the sun is visible 24 hours a day in areas north of the Arctic Circle. Countries that experience the Midnight Sun include the United States, Canada, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.

Answer 5

The "land of the midnight sun" is a reference to any land in the Arctic circle. It refers to the mid summer sun never setting due to the tilt of the earth.

These include Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Iceland, Northern Canada, Greenland, Lapland and Alaska.

Answer 6

Any place within 23.5 degrees of the north or south poles can have a continuous

24-hour period without a sunset.

That means any place whose latitude is greater than 66.5 degrees north or south.

Answer 7

That phrase refers to places on Earth where it's possible for the sun to remain

"up" and in the sky continuously for more than 24 hours.

Those places are: All of the area that is less than 231/2 degrees from either

the north or the south pole ... everything either north of the Arctic Circle or

south of the Antarctic Circle.

Answer 8

Norway id the land of the midnight sun