The empire on which the sun never sets is a well known phrase used to describes empires so large that it's always daytime on at least a small part of it. It was the case of the British Empire, which got so big that it had dominions over every single continent on the planet. The idiom, however, describe well enough the concept of an empire that is incredibly large in terms of longitude , so on the east-west axis. What about the latitude ? I have no clue, and the British Empire is not a thing anymore, but the United Kingdom still covers a large amount of land and islands and Shetland, or the Shetland Islands, is the northernmost part of it. This archipelago of about 100 islands, only 16 of which are inhabitated, sits in the middle of the North Sea, between Orkney, the Faroe Islands and Norway. It hosts a population of 23,020 people, most of which live on Mainland , Shetland's biggest island. Because of it's position clear winter nights sometimes allow the sight of the northe...
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