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Gavin

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Don't worry peeps I is keeping an eye on you all, but am wondering if any one here can help me with something... Remember Bouvet Island, where AVP was set, well does/would this island be affected by polar days/nights, and if so by what degree. Is hoping someone knowledgable can help me out with this. Would be a big help thanks.

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Ross
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I think I see where you are going with this. Bouvet Island is just off Antarctic. The events in the movie were set in February. (The dialouge from scene opening the sarcophogus confirms this). The southern hemisphere is summer at that time of year. A location of that latitude would experience extremely long days at that time of year, however, any outside scenes where shown to be in complete darkness. Well spotted snorkel.
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Without the need to go too much into explanations, which might sound boring or unclear, a simple consideration can be done. Bouvet Island is in the southern hemisphere and has a latitude of -54.4 degrees, so day and night there work exactly like any place at +54,5degrees (therefore in the northern hemisphere, which most of us are more familiar with), except for the inverted seasons. Inhabited cities in the northern hemisphere roughly at that latitude are the ones in northern England and Northern Ireland, for example. So day and night cycles on Bouvet Island are comparable to those of, say, Belfast.
Ridley Scott will eventually tell us how the Queen was born. Right now we have the Deacon; coming soon the Mercury, the May and the Taylor.
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so no polar night/day/twilight effects then?

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No polar days/nights for sure.
Ridley Scott will eventually tell us how the Queen was born. Right now we have the Deacon; coming soon the Mercury, the May and the Taylor.
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Thanks Nox

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