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Antarctic Midnight Sun
In this article we're looking at sources that claim there's a 24-hour sun or a midnight sun in the Antarctic.
Videos
There's plenty of debunked and mislabeled videos that state there's a 24 hour sun in Antarctica, however, there's few that seem to legitimately show a full time lapse of the 24 hour sun in Antarctica. Unlike the north, there's plenty of real time lapse videos available.
Faked or incomplete
- Fake 24-hour Video: YouTube: Antarctica 24 hour Sun
- Pretty Fake and ghey looking - YouTube: SOUTH POLE - ANTARCTICA 8K60
- This idiot posted North pole 24-hour timelapses and titled them Antarctic: YouTube: Antarctic Midnight Sun Timelapse
- NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, time-lapses have about 12 hours removed from them: noaa.gov South Pole Time Lapse Movies
- 52 seconds in, you'll clearly see a CGI sun in this video: YouTube: Frozen South: Antarctica 24 hour Sun 4K
- This one forgets that the sun rises then travels along the horizon, sun looks artificial: YouTube: What does the Sun do at the South Pole? A 5 day time-lapse - 8th to 13th March 2017
Disappointing or inconclusive
- Awfully cloudy: YouTube: Antarctica 24-hour Sunlight Timelapse VR
- 35 seconds in, you see a vertical splice, sun looks suspicious: YouTube: Antarctica 24hr Sunlight VR 8K
- Sun not tracked, but it appears the sun going around from the shadows: YouTube: Midnight sun Antarctica
- A fool doing a selfie mostly, claiming he's showing you the midnight sun: YouTube: MIDNIGHT SUN ? - Antarctica Summer
- Sun not tracked, poor quality shows shadows going in circle: YouTube: 24 Hours of Sunlight at the South Pole, Antarctica: Time Lapse Video of Sun Going in Circle
- Sun not tracked: YouTube: Antarctica: Midnight Sun over Antarctica [Climate/Seasons]
- Sun not tracked: YouTube: THE POLAR NIGHT - 9 month timelapse at the South Pole - 4K60 HDR
- Incomplete tracking: YouTube: Antarctic Sun Time Lapse at McMurdo Station
Newspaper articles
Davis Enterprise (1915)
This article describes the transition from the Arctic 24-hour sun to Antarctic Midnight Sun. It makes reference to the sun not setting at all. [1]
In the Arctic circle the sun will not rise above the horizon at any point, and in the Antarctic circle it will not set at all.
Evening Star (1946)
In a newspaper article Richard E. Byrd Jr. describes the accomplishments of his Father when Admiral Byrd flew over both the North and the South poles. He briefly describes there being a 24-hour sun in the Antarctic. [2]
If we ever settled there we would not street lamps during the six-month Antarctic summer, then the sun shines 24 hours a day.
Evening Star (1947)
In this article a reporter was taken to Antartica and reports that the sun shines 24 hours a day. [3]
It was now nearly midnight, but the ice and sea reflected the polar sun. It is summertime down here in the Antarctic and a brilliant sun shines 24 hours a day.
San Bernadino Sun (1968)
This article describes McMurdo station area having 24 hour sun from October to March. [4]
In Summer (October to March) the sun shines 24 hours a day...
Websites
- Antarctic Summer, see where the sun will be: suncalc.org