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Explain why locations near the North Pole experience weeks of sunlight in June with no sunsets.

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It happens because the Earth is tilted on its axis around 23 degrees therefore the sun normally never sets at north Pole in summers. The sun doesn't set at Arctic Circle on North pole from about April 19 to August 23 each year due to this phenomenon.

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