The 68th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 68 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, in the Arctic. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Asia and North America.
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At this latitude the sun is visible for 24 hours, 0 minutes from May 27th to July 15th (excluding May 26th, the day with the last sunrise before the summer solstice, and July 16th, the day with the first sunset after it), and civil polar twilight lasts from December 9th to January 3rd. At noon on the winter solstice, the altitude of the Sun is -0.7°.
This latitude is the boundary between the Southern and Arctic zones of Canada's National Topographic System, at which the longitude span of each map sheet doubles as one crosses this latitude going north.
Around the world
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 68° north passes through:
