In Utqiaġvik (formerly known as Barrow), Alaska, the farthest northern town in the U.S., the sun didn’t rise above the horizon for 65 days. After November 18, 2018, Utqiaġvik residents lived in darkness until January 23, 2019 as this NPR podcast reports. “[One of the town’s residents] Mongoyak says that seeing the sun reminds him of all the spring and summer activities that are waiting for Utqiaġvik just around the corner: whaling, goose and duck hunting, fishing on the ocean, caribou hunting on the tundra. And just being outside.”
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