UTQIAGVIK, Alaska– The town at the northern tip of Alaska has seen its last moment of darkness for nearly three months. Utqiagvik experiences this phenomenon known to locals as "midnight sun" every ...

Polar nights occur in both poles during their winter months, in the northern hemisphere from September to March, and in the southern hemisphere from March to September. Alongside parts of Alaska ...

After getting 30 minutes of daylight, the town of Utqiaġvik, Alaska – formerly known as Barrow – saw its final sunset of the year on Monday as it enters a "polar night." According to the ...

It is situated along Alaska’s North Slope on the Arctic Ocean ... leading to a prolonged “polar night.” The sun will set at 1:27 p.m. local time on Nov. 18., and it won’t reemerge from ...