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Baffin Island Sun
Photo: Midnight sun on Baffin Island, Canada
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A long-exposure photograph captures the sun in flight across Baffin Island's Arctic sky. On the Canadian island—and elsewhere north of 66.5 degrees latitude—summer's midnight sun remains above the horizon 24 hours a day.
Photograph by John Dunn

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