Nov. 18 Barrow’s last sunset of the year

The nation’s northernmost town saw its last sundown of the year on Friday, Nov. 18.

The sun set in Barrow, Alaska, on the Arctic coast at 1:40 p.m. on Nov. 18 and doesn’t rise again until Jan. 23 at 1:01 p.m.

The final sunset south of Barrow at the Prudhoe Bay oil field was five days later on Nov. 23.

Diana Martin, an Inupiat Eskimo and a lifelong Barrow resident, said it’s much easier to start the day when Barrow receives round-the-clock daylight in summer. But other than sleeping in a bit longer, Martin said, school and community events go on as usual through the long night.

—The Associated Press