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The Sun Never Sets on American Land

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 41.

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The Sun Never Sets on American Land

THE silly notion has been recently republished, that the sun never sets on American land. That is nonsense. Our domain, from Quoddy Head, in Maine, to the Western Aleutian Island, comprises 120 degrees, 46 minutes of longitude, and the globe has 360 degrees of course. In midsummer the sun is visible somewhere in our domain for 35 days of the year, when the north pole is turned toward it. The other 330 nights the sun sets. On December 21 the sun does not shine on American territory for 7 hours and 50 minutes—a pretty long lap.—Selected.