Tony Moss wrote:

> I've just been asked to consider designing a sundial for a VERY high
> northerly latitude accompanied by the query "Would this be the most
> northerly known sundial?"
> 
> What are the existing likely candidates for such an honour?


Don't know if the dial still exists, but there's a photo of a horizontal
-- designed to give the hour even when the midnight Sun shines! -- for
Thule, Greenland (N 76.5 degrees), shown opposite page 63 in the second
edition of Mayall and Mayall's book, _Sundials_.

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   Mark Gingrich      [EMAIL PROTECTED]      San Leandro, California

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