During winter - yes. Then the sun never appear above the horizon for months on end.
24 hours
During the Antarctic summer, the sun can stay up for 24 hours a day for several months due to the phenomenon known as the midnight sun. Conversely, during the Antarctic winter, the sun may not rise above the horizon for several months, resulting in polar night.
Never.The Antarctic Circle marks the latitude on planet earth south of which at least one 24-hour period has no sunrise or no sunset.All latitudes north of the Antarctic Circle experience one sunrise and one sunset each day...until the latitude of the Arctic Circle, where the reverse occurs.
North of the Arctic Circle, and South of the Antarctic Circle, in their respective Summers, day is 24 hours long, there is no real night at all for several months.
No. There are places on the Antarctic continent when there are 24 hours of sunlight -- but during the summer.
the tilt of the earth's axis
A day is 12 hoursA night is 12 hours
around June 21
Because God is sometimes happy therefore there is 24 hours of daylight and then sometimes God is sad or angry and therfore there is 24 hours of night.
This phenomenon occurs because the Earth tilts away from the sun, and this is the day where the extent of that phenomenon is shortest: one 24-hour period.
During the summer at the Tropic of Capricorn, the region that experiences 24 hours of darkness is the Antarctic Circle, located around the South Pole. This phenomenon is known as the Antarctic Polar Night and is due to the tilt of the Earth's axis away from the Sun during that time of year.
24 hours.