15Watch The Sunset After Midnight
During the Gold Rush, the poet Robert Service wrote: “There are strange things done under the Midnight Sun.” Visit in the summer and you’ll discover that the season’s so short that residents try to make the most of every day. Here the sun doesn’t set until sometime after midnight. The farther north you travel, the longer the days are. In fact, Utqiagvik is the USA’s northernmost settlement. There they have more than 80 days in a row without one sunset.
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