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The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Midnight Sun Run is a ten-kilometer (6.2 mi) road running event, held annually since 1983 in Fairbanks, Alaska, it attracts participants from across the United States and from around the world. The race takes place on the third Saturday of June each year, starting at 10 p.m. with the boom of a cannon that can be ...
A photograph taken at midnight during the 2005 game, June 21, 2005. The Midnight Sun Game is an amateur baseball game played every summer solstice at Growden Memorial Park in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. Because the sun is out for almost 24 hours a day, the game starts at about 10:30 at night and completes around 1:30 the next morning.
Multiple exposure of midnight sun on Lake Ozhogino in Yakutia, Russia Timelapse video of Lapland's midnight sun in Rovaniemi, Finland. Because there are no permanent human settlements south of the Antarctic Circle, apart from research stations, the countries and territories whose populations experience midnight sun are limited to those crossed by the Arctic Circle: Canada (Yukon, Nunavut, and ...
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The players line up before the first pitch of the 2011 Midnight Sun Game. First held in 1906, the annual Midnight Sun Game is held yearly in Fairbanks, hosted by the Goldpanners. The game, which begins at 10:30 PM on the night of the summer solstice, has gained the attention of international media. [citation needed]
Growden Memorial Park is an outdoor park in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. Originally called Memorial Park, the park was renamed in 1964 in memory of James Growden who, along with his two sons, lost his life in the tsunami created by the Good Friday Earthquake of 1964. Growden had been active in youth activities in Fairbanks for a number of ...
The next year, the Goldpanners hosted their first annual Midnight Sun Baseball Game, a tradition that had been conducted since 1905 and continues under the Goldpanners' auspices today. [165] Through the 1960s, Fairbanks became much more like small towns in the Lower 48 as communications, transportation, and utilities improved. [166]
Midnight Sun Run, a 10 K race in Fairbanks, Alaska This page was last edited on 28 October 2022, at 15:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...