Geography Bee Question

Due to axial precession, this geographic feature is slowly drifting northward at roughly 15 meters per year, meaning it will pass the Icelandic island of Grímsey by the mid-2050s. Every point along this feature is precisely perpendicular to Earth's orbital plane exactly once per day. An amusement park in Rovaniemi, Finland, known as Santa Claus Village, is famously built to straddle this line. All locations north of this boundary experience at least one full day of midnight sun in summer and one full day of polar night in winter. , name this parallel at 66 degrees 33 minutes north latitude that marks the southernmost boundary of the polar day phenomenon.

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Think of the line that rings the top of the globe where the sun never rises on the winter solstice — it's the boundary of the far north.