the midnight sun
Longitude , 127 ° 36 ' 12 '' west of the meridian of Greenwich . Latitude , 70 ° 44 ' 37 '' north . And that very evening these hardy pioneers , encamped so far from the inhabited world , watched the mighty luminary of day touch the edges of the western horizon without dipping beneath it . For the first time they saw the shining of the midnight sun . CHAPTER XIII . FORT HOPE . The site of the new fort was now finally determined on .