Arctic Circle
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"But Russia doesn’t simply ignore global warming – why was it so mad at the Scandinavian countries when they expressed their intention to join Nato? With global warming, what is at stake is the control of the Arctic passage. (That’s why Trump wanted to buy Greenland from Denmark.)"--"Pacifism is the wrong response to the war in Ukraine" (21 Jun, 2022) by Slavoj Žižek |
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The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth. The Arctic Circle is special because it marks the point where, on the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year, the sun will not rise all day, and on the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, the sun will not set. These are referred to as polar night and midnight sun respectively, and the further north one progresses, the more pronounced these effects become. For example, in the Russian port city of Murmansk, just 3º above the arctic circle, the sun does not rise for 40 days straight in the winter.
See also
- 60th parallel north
- Antarctic Circle
- Arctic cooperation and politics
- Arctic haze
- Circumpolar star
- Scott Polar Research Institute
- Territorial claims in the Arctic
- Tropic of Cancer
- Tropic of Capricorn
