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78th parallel north Svalbard - island of Spitsbergen

At the World’s Northernmost City

the sun sets each year for the very last time on October 25th and it will not rise above the horizon again for four months. The sun officially returns to Longyearbyen on March 8th, when it is finally high enough above the horizon to illuminate the steps of the old hospital.

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Uploaded on March 9, 2017
Taken on February 24, 2017