the Midnight Sun
`` There are a few others as I recall them -- Fort Wrigley , twelve hundred and sixty-five miles from here , and Fort Norman , fourteen hundred and thirty-seven miles . Now you come to Fort Good Hope , and that is right under the Arctic Circle . It is sixteen hundred and nine miles from here , where we are at the head of the railroads . If we are fast enough in our journey we 'll get our first sight of the Midnight Sun at Good Hope , perhaps . `` The next post north of Good Hope is Arctic Red River , eighteen hundred and nineteen miles ; and of course you know that the last post of the Hudson 's Bay Company is Fort McPherson , on the Peel River , near the mouth of the Mackenzie . That is rated as eighteen hundred and nineteen miles by the government map-makers , who may or may not be right ; being an engineer myself , I 'll say they must be right ! In round numbers we might as well call it two thousand miles .