The Sun Doesn't Go Down on a Helsinki Summer Day

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The Sun doesn't go down on a Helsinki Summer Day.

Photographed in Helsinki, Finland.

Image: GrrlScientist, 5 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)

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Only very approximately, Grrrl dear.
You have to be north of the arctic circle, something like 67 degree north. Helsinki is a little bit above the 60th parallel, 800 km (500 miles) too far south for real 24-hour sunlight. It is true, however, that the sun doesn't go too far below the horizon and it is possible to read the newspaper at midnight.

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