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Question
What is the latitude of Arctic Circle? Also, give its characteristics.
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Solution
The Latitude of the Arctic Circle is 66 1°/2 North. Here once the year (June 21) the day is of 24 hours duration and once in the year (December 22) the night is of 24 hours duration.
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