With the extra daylight during summer, Alaska offers a wide range of benefits. You get extra vacation time with sunshine. Plants have a longer daytime growing cycle. Plus, you get to see sunsets in the east! Let me explain.
In the regions close the arctic or antarctic the sun circles around you instead of rising and setting in the east and then the west. Below that circle the sun just dips under the horizon and then rises a few hours later close to where it set. Hence the reason for eastern sunsets.
