Following are circles of latitude between the 70th parallel north and the 75th parallel north:
The 71st parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 71 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, in the Arctic. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Asia and North America, and passes through some of the southern seas of the Arctic Ocean.
At this latitude the sun is visible for 24 hours, 0 minutes during the summer solstice and Civil Twilight during the winter solstice.
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 71° north passes through:
The 72nd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 72 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, in the Arctic. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Asia, the Arctic Ocean and North America.
At this latitude, the sun is visible for 24 hours, 0 minutes during the summer solstice and Civil Twilight during the winter solstice. This is the parallel where twilight/nighttime boundary on the equinoxes.
This is also the highest parallel that golden hour occurs even at midnight sun, because the Sun is less than 6°00'00" above the horizon. Midnight Sun without golden hour occurs at latitudes greater than 72°33'38.58804", i.e., about 666.8 km (414.3 mi) north of the Arctic Circle in the case of the June Solstice.
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 72° north passes through:
The 73rd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 73 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, in the Arctic. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Asia, the Arctic Ocean and North America.
At this latitude midnight sun lasts from about May 4th to August 7th, and polar night from about November 12th to January 29th, with nautical polar twilight lasting from about December 11th to January 1st. At noon on the summer and winter solstices, the altitude of the sun is 40.45° and -6.44° respectively. At midnight on the summer solstice, the altitude of the sun is 6.57°.
Between 1776 and 1950, the 73rd parallel formed the northern limit of the Royal Greenland Trade Department's exclusive monopoly on trade near the Dano-Norwegian and later Danish colonies of Greenland (1776–1782) and North Greenland (1782–1950).[1]
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 73° north passes through:
The 74th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 74 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, in the Arctic. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Asia, the Arctic Ocean, and North America.
At this latitude the sun is visible for 24 hours, 0 minutes during the summer solstice and nautical twilight during the winter solstice.
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 74° north passes through:
The 75th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 75 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, in the Arctic. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Asia, the Arctic Ocean and North America.
At this latitude midnight sun lasts from April 27th to August 14th, and polar night from November 5th to February 5th, with the nautical polar twilight stage lasting from November 26th to January 16th. At noon on the summer and winter solstices, the altitude of the sun is 38.46° and -8.44° respectively. At midnight on the summer solstice, the altitude of the sun is 8.54°
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 75° north passes through:
| Coordinates | Country, territory or sea | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Ocean | Greenland Sea Norwegian Sea | |
| Barents Sea | ||
| Novaya Zemlya - Severny Island | ||
| Kara Sea | Passing just south of the Arkticheskiy Institut Islands, | |
| Taymyr Peninsula, passing through Lake Taymyr | ||
| Laptev Sea | ||
| New Siberian Islands - Kotelny Island and Bunge Land | ||
| East Siberian Sea | Passing just south of Faddeyevsky Island, | |
| New Siberian Islands - New Siberia | ||
| East Siberian Sea | ||
| Arctic Ocean | ||
| Beaufort Sea | ||
| M'Clure Strait | ||
| Northwest Territories - Melville Island | ||
| Liddon Gulf | ||
| Northwest Territories - Melville Island Nunavut - Melville Island | ||
| Viscount Melville Sound | Passing just south of Byam Martin Island, Nunavut, | |
| Nunavut - Bathurst Island | ||
| McDougall Sound | ||
| Nunavut - Cornwallis Island | ||
| Wellington Channel | ||
| Nunavut - Devon Island and Philpots Island | ||
| Baffin Bay | ||
| Kjer Glacier | ||
| Grandjean Fjord and Kuhn Island (King Christian X Land) | ||
| Atlantic Ocean | Hochstetter Bay | |
| Shannon Island | ||
| Atlantic Ocean | Greenland Sea | |
