Search
Menu
Home
Sources
About
Contacts
84th parallel north
The
84th parallel
north
is a
circle of latitude
that is 84
degrees north
of the
Earth's
equatorial plane
, in
the Arctic
. It
passes
solely through the
Arctic Ocean
.
The
northernmost land
on earth,
Kaffeklubben Island
,
Greenland
is
roughly
40
kilometres
south
of this parallel.
At this
latitude
the sun
is
visible
for
24 hours
, 0
minutes
during the
summer solstice
and
astronomical twilight
during the
winter solstice
.