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 Sun never rises

                                        


Ever wondered a place where sun never rise. Well it is a dream for night lovers like me. Yes, such places do exist! It is the Norwegian Town where the sun never rises. Located over 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Tromsø, Norway, is home to extreme light variation between seasons. During the Polar Night, which lasts from November to January, the sun doesn’t rise at all. Then the days get progressively longer until the Midnight Sun period, from May to July, when it never sets. After the midnight sun, the days get shorter and shorter again until the Polar Night, and the yearly cycle repeats.


                                    

 

Rjukan a town located 3 hours north-west of Oslo Norway is known one of the darkest cities on earth. This town has no direct sunlight from September to March because of the mountains surrounding it. In order to give the locals at least a bit of sun, the town has provided 5 million Norwegian Kroner to install mirros. These solar powered mirrors that are placed 450 meters above the town track the movement of the sun across the town. As a result, the sun shines down on the town square. In an interview, one of the locals said that people of Rjukan do get used to living without the sunlight. “You end up not thinking about it, really. But this … This is so warming. Not just physically, but mentally. It’s mentally warming.”

 

                                     


However, this idea received some critics that why would someone spend millions just to have some light? But many critics did come around as they noticed that this idea not only provided some much-needed sun for the locals but it also helped to put the town on the map since this idea did manage to attract more tourists to the town.

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