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The Aurora is not something that happens every night, at least not at 64N. Knowing how cloudy Iceland is, I think there's a very small chance to see it.
It's a common misconception that the Auroras are an everyday phenomenon in high latitudes. Near the poles yes, but decreases rapidly with latitude. At 70N you could technically see auroras 50-75% of nights during winter if there wouldn't be any cloud cover or moon illumination. Come down to 60N, and the possible percentage drops to 3%.
I haven't seen auroras in 10 years maybe.
Thanks, that's informative. I suppose I should have realised that. I once saw it faintly at only 49N in Canada. But I have never seen it in Scotland, although there is a lot of light pollution where I live and it is usually cloudy.
I was living in Inuvik at the time. Lived up there for 6 months and was there for the shortest sunrise/sunset I've ever seen. The 23 hours + 59 minutes of darkness are hard to adjust to (many locals head down South to avoid the worst of it). The temps weren't however (we have similar winters here).
and Mexico (too young to remember where my parents went).
In tuktoyaktuk one can see post-2am sunsets near the midnight sun, post-1pm sunrise near the polar night
Mine is 56 degrees North, in Edinburgh, Scotland for most northerly point I've been to.
Southernmost point is Stewart Island/Rakiura in New Zealand, at 47 degrees South.
The Scotland visit took place just before the New Year, and boy, that sun was low in the sky - dunno how high it got, but it sure wasn't much. And sunset took place around 3:30, although the extended twilight lasted a good bit longer than that. Pretty odd to see those long, long shadows at high noon, for sure. The New Zealand visit took place in summer, but it was overcast, so sun's position didn't matter anyhow.
If you go by just the northern hemisphere, the lowest I've visited is 0 degrees exactly, with my legs straddling both sides of the Equator in Ecuador...can't get any "lower" than that...lol.
I've also visited the equator landmark tower, in Pontianak, West Kalimantan
Northernmost: Longyearbyen: 78 N
Southernmost Gran Canaria: 28 N
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