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The midnight Sun & polar night

The claim

“The midnight Sun is a local lamp circling overhead.”

What is measured

When the Arctic has 24-hour Sun the Antarctic has 24-hour night (and the reverse six months later), impossible over one flat disc lit by one Sun.

What would show this is wrong

an Antarctic station reporting darkness in December while another reports daylight; or a walk around the South Pole marker that takes anything other than about a minute; or a Sun that sits at a height other than the axial tilt when seen from the pole at the solstice. All three are checkable by anyone who goes, and people go every year.

Sources

  1. Midnight Sun & polar night. Above the Arctic Circle (66.56° N) the Sun stays up 24 h at the June solstice while the Antarctic is in 24-h darkness; the boundary equals 90° − 23.44° axial tilt link
  2. One sunrise and one sunset a year at the South Pole. The US Amundsen–Scott Station at the geographic South Pole (90°S, staffed year-round) sees the Sun rise once near the September equinox a link
  3. A single sunrise and a single sunset per year at the South Pole. At the South Pole the Sun rises at the September equinox and remains above the horizon until it sets at the March equinox, gi link
  4. Published Sun altitude and day length at the South Pole. For 7 December 2025 at the South Pole the published solar altitude was 22.7° and the day length was 24 hours . At the December solsti link
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