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Index of Subjects On 21-Mar-07, at 20:31 PM, Andy Moir/Chris Callaghan wrote: > This morning on CBC radio, they talked with a person who lives way > up north. (I didn't catch the location, but they said it was the > most northerly year-round settlement in Canada). The question they > were asking was about what Spring means to various parts of the > country. One thing he said is that as of April 1st, his community > will have sunlight 24 hours a day ... I tried, unsuccessfully, to > find a webpage that would explain to me why there would be 24 hours > of light that far north at this time of year, when we're in > darkness by 8 pm The most northerly permanently inhabited place in Canada is Alert, at the very north-eastern tip of Ellesmere Island, at 82° 28' N 62° 30'W. That's *way* up there. Check out the wikipedia article on Alert -- "There is 24-hour daylight from the last week of March until the middle of September and the sun is above the horizon from mid-April through August. From mid-October through the end of February the sun does not rise above the horizon and there is 24-hour darkness.": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert%2C_Nunavut , or look at this: http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/71082.html for today -- civil twilight's already 3:38 AM ADT, 11:12 PM AD. In terms of the explanation, it's simply, I think, because it's SO far north, almost as much farther north from us as we are from the equator, at 44° north. At the equator, remember, day and night are the same length all year round. That's something I've never gotten used to when visiting the tropics -- I keep thinking that warm days = long days, not darkness by 6:00 pm! cheers, Joanne __________________________________ Joanne Cook (mailto:forests2@ecologyaction.ca) Coordinator, Standing Tall Campaign for Environmentally Responsible Forestry, Ecology Action Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 902.429.1335 (voice); 902.422.6410 (fax). http://www.novascotiaforests.ca & http://www.ecologyaction.ca * Do not meddle with the Forces of Nature, for you are small, insignificant, and biodegradable. *
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