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Norwegian Town Looks Forward to Sunrise on March 8

Thursday March 6, 2008
The New York Times has a great article about the Norwegian town of Longyearbyen, which will experience sunrise on March 8 for the first time since sunset in October. Longyearbyen is located at 78 degrees north, far north of the Arctic Circle, on the island of Svalbard.

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March 16, 2008 at 3:24 am
(1) Saurabh says:

Amazing peice of info–even the sun comes at a proce and is celebrated

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