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The time change, which occurs on the second Sunday in March and ends the first Sunday in November, left many wondering what time sunrise and sunsets will occur now that we are no longer on ...
The Dr. Neil Trivett Global Atmosphere Watch Observatory is an atmospheric baseline station operated by Environment and Climate Change Canada located about 6 km (3.7 mi) south south-west of Alert, Nunavut, on the north-eastern tip of Ellesmere Island, about 800 km (500 mi) south of the geographic North Pole.
Orthographic projection centred over Alert, Nunavut. Alert is 12 km (7.5 mi) west of Cape Sheridan, the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, on the shore of the ice-covered Lincoln Sea. Alert lies just 817 km (508 mi) from the North Pole; the nearest Canadian city is Iqaluit, the capital of the territory of Nunavut, 2,092 km (1,300 mi) distant.
Daylight Saving Time Regulations, 2001 (Nunavut Gazette, vol. 3, No. 4, page 5) (in force from April 1, 2001, until February 19, 2007) SOR/2001-182 (federal proclamation: Proclamation establishing three different time zones in Nunavut, for the purposes of the definition of "standard time" in the Interpretation Act, May 23, 2001)
Alert, Nunavut, the northernmost settlement in Canada and the world, experiences this from about November 19 to January 22. Its antipode ( 82°30′S 117°38′E / 82.500°S 117.633°E / -82.500; 117.633 ) experiences this from about May 19 to July 25
It is the third-northernmost permanent research community in the world. The only two farther north are Alert, which is also on Ellesmere Island, and Nord, in Greenland. Eureka has the lowest average annual temperature [6] and the lowest amount of precipitation of any weather station in Canada. Eureka's postal code is X0A 0G0 and the area code ...
The above relation implies that on the same day, the lengths of daytime from sunrise to sunset at and sum to 24 hours if =, and this also applies to regions where polar days and polar nights occur. This further suggests that the global average of length of daytime on any given day is 12 hours without considering the effect of atmospheric ...
Sun path, sometimes also called day arc, refers to the daily (sunrise to sunset) and seasonal arc-like path that the Sun appears to follow across the sky as the Earth rotates and orbits the Sun. The Sun's path affects the length of daytime experienced and amount of daylight received along a certain latitude during a given season.