Place of 24 hours darkness in Europe

Most depressing island! (24 hours of darkness) Svalbard

(Joe HaTTab) ● Svalbard: The Northernmost Town on Earth ● Come take a walk with me (Joe Hattab) around Longyearbyen, the largest town on the Norwegian islands of Svalbard. 

Parts of it look familiar, but make no mistake. This place is different. At 78 degrees north, it lies just 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) from the North Pole. And with over 2,000 permanent inhabitants, it is the northernmost real town on Earth.

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There are only 50 km of road, including the small streets between houses, so people mainly get around the island on snowmobile. In fact, there are more registered snowmobiles than residents.

Anyone leaving town is required to travel with a gun and someone who knows how to use it because the islands are also home to polar bears.

The average daytime high is below freezing for all but four months of the year, and from the end of October to mid-February, the sun doesn’t rise at all. This is the long polar night.

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