“… the brilliant aurora australis. … flush of daylight has moved to the north, … but it shows nevertheless that we have daylight here at the darkest time of the year, so there is not the absolute darkness that people think.”

Explaining why the Antarctic winter is not all dark
Sydpolen (The South Pole) (1912)

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