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Alaskan town welcomes ‘midnight sun’ with final sunrise for 84 days


The sun came up in Utqiagvik, Alaska — the northernmost city in the U.S. — on Sunday morning and it won’t set again until August 2. Timelapse footage from the National Weather Service shows the sun setting at 1:48 a.m. before rising above the horizon at 2:57 a.m.

The town is situated more than 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle and has a population of around 4,500 people.

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