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(Message started by: usdragonfly on Mar 2^nd, 2004, 1:33pm)

Title: Term wanted
Post by usdragonfly on Mar 2^nd, 2004, 1:33pm

What is the term used to describe the place where the sun does not set
for at least one day and there is no night?

I don't know the answer!! help!! ???

Title: Re: help!!
Post by towr on Mar 2^nd, 2004, 1:43pm

Polar circle/region?

(I'm a bit mistified why this is under psychology, is this a test? ::) )

Title: Re: help!!
Post by usdragonfly on Mar 2^nd, 2004, 1:47pm

i'm sorry! i'll move it!

Title: Re: help!!
Post by towr on Mar 2^nd, 2004, 2:43pm

I wouldn't worry about it too much.. Only William can move it anyway..

Title: Re: help!!
Post by usdragonfly on Mar 2^nd, 2004, 2:45pm

yeah i noticed that, i'm sorry!

Title: Re: help!!
Post by Icarus on Mar 2^nd, 2004, 6:27pm

They are called the Artic Circle, and the Antartic Circle. (More accurately, the Artic and Antartic circles are the boundaries of the these regions. Generally, the regions themselves are referred to as being "within the Artic circle". "Polar regions" is also used, but may refer more generally to extreme northern or southern lattitudes, rather than strictly within the circles.)

And they only have no night during the spring & summer. During the fall and winter, they go through periods of continuous night without any day. How long this lasts depends on how far north or south you go. At the poles, days and nights are 6 months long each. On the circles themselves, there is only one night a year when the sun never quite sets, and one day when it never quite rises.

But even below the circles, while the sun does set, it never gets truly dark around the summer solstice. I once spent a week in Anchorage, Alaska (on the southern coast) & during that time it never got dark enough to see the stars, much less the Aurora. I'm told that at the winter solstice, Anchorage gets about 4 hours of daylight, but have no intention of finding out for myself! :P

Title: Re: help!!
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Jun 24^th, 2005, 10:03am

on 03/02/04 at 18:27:43, Icarus wrote:

Even more accurately, the Arctic and Antarctic are... :P