The last sunset on mainland Europe
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal Cartography and Geographic Information Science on 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15230406.2016.1249409 Certain coastal localities attempt to attract tourists by claiming to have the...
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ftunivsantcomp:oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/18512 2023-05-15T16:33:48+02:00 The last sunset on mainland Europe Mira Pérez, Jorge Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Física Aplicada application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18512 https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2016.1249409 eng eng Taylor & Francis https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2016.1249409 Mira-Pérez, J. (2016). The last sunset on mainland Europe. Cartography And Geographic Information Science, 45(1), 56-61. doi:10.1080/15230406.2016.1249409 1523-0406 http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18512 doi:10.1080/15230406.2016.1249409 1545-0465 © Taylor & Francis, 2016 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Sunset Sunrise Europe Menorca Africa Coastal tourism info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion ftunivsantcomp https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2016.1249409 2022-06-12T20:29:35Z This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal Cartography and Geographic Information Science on 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15230406.2016.1249409 Certain coastal localities attempt to attract tourists by claiming to have the earliest sunrise or latest sunset in their country or even continent. This article documents the places in mainland Europe where the sun sets latest during the year. In contradiction to the naïve assumption that the sun always sets latest at the westernmost point, the point of last sunset changes cyclically over the course of a year due to the changing orientation of the axis of the Earth with respect to the sun. On mainland Europe, the focus of this study, between the winter and summer solstices the last sunset shifts successively from Cabo de São Vicente (Portugal) to Cabo da Roca (Portugal) to Cabo Touriñán (Spain) to a site near Aglapsvik (Norway) to a location in the Norwegian municipality of Måsøy south of Havøysund; and it shifts back again between the summer and winter solstices. There are even 2 days of the year (24th April and 18th August) on which the last sunset of mainland Europe coincides with the last sunset of mainland Africa, at a site in Western Sahara near Cap Blanc. A similar analysis of the first sunrise in Spain is also done SI Article in Journal/Newspaper Havøysund Minerva - Repositorio institucional da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC) Aglapsvik ENVELOPE(18.210,18.210,69.462,69.462) Havøysund ENVELOPE(24.657,24.657,70.996,70.996) Måsøy ENVELOPE(24.661,24.661,70.997,70.997) Norway Roca ENVELOPE(-44.817,-44.817,-60.733,-60.733) Cartography and Geographic Information Science 45 1 56 61 |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal Cartography and Geographic Information Science on 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15230406.2016.1249409 Certain coastal localities attempt to attract tourists by claiming to have the earliest sunrise or latest sunset in their country or even continent. This article documents the places in mainland Europe where the sun sets latest during the year. In contradiction to the naïve assumption that the sun always sets latest at the westernmost point, the point of last sunset changes cyclically over the course of a year due to the changing orientation of the axis of the Earth with respect to the sun. On mainland Europe, the focus of this study, between the winter and summer solstices the last sunset shifts successively from Cabo de São Vicente (Portugal) to Cabo da Roca (Portugal) to Cabo Touriñán (Spain) to a site near Aglapsvik (Norway) to a location in the Norwegian municipality of Måsøy south of Havøysund; and it shifts back again between the summer and winter solstices. There are even 2 days of the year (24th April and 18th August) on which the last sunset of mainland Europe coincides with the last sunset of mainland Africa, at a site in Western Sahara near Cap Blanc. A similar analysis of the first sunrise in Spain is also done SI |
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https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2016.1249409 Mira-Pérez, J. (2016). The last sunset on mainland Europe. Cartography And Geographic Information Science, 45(1), 56-61. doi:10.1080/15230406.2016.1249409 1523-0406 http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18512 doi:10.1080/15230406.2016.1249409 1545-0465 |
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