During the summer solstice, nighttime does not get beyond nautical twilight, a condition which lasts throughout the month of June.
Malachy Tallack wrote a book, Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home, about his travels along the general line of the parallel, starting and finishing at Shetland.
[3][4] Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 60° north passes through: In Canada, the 60th parallel forms the southern mainland boundary of the northern territories of Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut with the western provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.
A 1990s TV show on CBC about life in the Northwest Territories was called North of 60.
[6] Canada's only four corners are located at the intersection of the 60th parallel and the 102nd meridian west, between the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.