A CRUISE TO THE MIDNIGHT SUN The reader will perhaps query the possibility of journeying to a land where the sun shines at night. Such a journey is, however, not only possible; it can even be performed with the greatest ease and under the most agreeable condi- tions if it is done in Norway. The Midnight Sun may, of course, be seen at midsummer at any point north*) of the Arctic Circle, but this circle lies only 23°27’ from the North Pole and runs through extreme-northern Siberia, across Alaska, the northernmost tracts of Canada and across Greenland. As we all know, travel in these polar regions, even in summer, is not a particularly pleasant matter for the ordinary tourist. But the Arctic Circle also runs midway across far-flung Norway, whose stately and beautiful coast faces the Gulf-Stream tempered waters of the Atlantic. It is always enjoyable to cruise along the coast of Norway, and particularly so at that season, of the year when the Midnight Sun lights up the Far North. But the Gulf Stream penetrates still farther *) As a tourist attraction we may leave out of account the Midnight Sun in the southern hemisphere. 183