We Found the Northernmost, Southernmost, Easternmost and Westernmost Live Webcams on Earth
We searched every edge of the planet. Here is what we found streaming live.
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Somewhere right now, the sun has not risen for months. At the bottom of the world, a camera watches over a frozen landscape so cold and so remote that only a handful of people have ever stood there.
At the top of the world, another camera looks out at an Arctic sky that glows even at midnight. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, one of the rarest birds on the planet tends its nest, watched by a camera that almost nobody knows exists.
And in the Bering Strait, between Alaska and Russia, a camera sits on a tiny island where you can look across two miles of freezing water and see a different day.
We set out to find the most extreme live webcams on Earth - the ones sitting at the very edges of the planet.
Here are the four cameras at the northernmost, southernmost, and most geographically extreme east and west points where a live feed exists right now.
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Before We Start
- North, South, East & West Guide -
The Earth has invisible lines drawn around it. Lines going from top to bottom measure how far east or west you are - these are called lines of longitude. They start at zero in Greenwich, London, and go all the way around the world to 180 degrees on the other side.
Lines going sideways measure how far north or south you are - these are called lines of latitude. The middle of the Earth is zero.
The North Pole is 90 degrees north. The South Pole is 90 degrees south.
Note: the Prime Meridian line appears slightly east of its true position - in reality it passes through Greenwich, east London.
East and west get interesting near the Pacific Ocean.
There is a line out there called the International Date Line - the place where one calendar day ends and the next begins.
Cross it heading west and you skip forward a day. Cross it heading east and you go back one.
It is the reason two tiny islands just 2.4 miles apart can be on different days of the week at the same time.
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The Southernmost Webcam
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica - 90 degrees South
How extreme? The absolute bottom of the planet. The sun does not rise here for six months of the year. The average winter temperature: minus 60 degrees Celsius!
There is nowhere further south than this. Ninety degrees south is the South Pole - every direction you face from here is north. It is one of the most hostile places on Earth, and yet there is a camera there, streaming live.
The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is a permanently staffed American research base that has been operating since 1956.
Around 150 scientists and support staff live there during the summer season, dropping to around 40 in winter when the station is completely cut off - no flights can land in those temperatures.
The camera, run by NOAA, looks out over the ice and the station buildings so you can see what the most southerly place on Earth looks like right now.
The station sits on ice nearly three kilometres thick. Underneath all that ice is land - but nobody will ever see it.
Scott and Amundsen raced to reach this exact spot in 1911 and 1912.
Now you can watch it from your sofa!
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Northernmost Webcam
Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, Norway - 78.9 degrees North
Watch Ny-Alesund Observatory Live
Also live from Kings Bay Airport, Ny-Alesund: Kings Bay Airport Cam
How extreme? Just eleven degrees from the North Pole. One of the most northerly permanently inhabited places on Earth.
Svalbard is a group of Norwegian islands so far north that polar bears outnumber people. The settlement of Ny-Alesund sits at almost 79 degrees north, deep inside the zone where the midnight sun blazes all summer and darkness falls for months in winter.
Around 30 scientists and researchers live in Ny-Alesund year-round, rising to about 150 in summer. It is one of the most northerly permanently inhabited places on Earth, and its entire purpose is science.
The Zeppelin Observatory sits on a mountain above the settlement, monitoring the Arctic atmosphere.
Its camera, run by the Norwegian Polar Institute, updates every ten minutes and looks out over one of the most spectacular and empty landscapes on the planet - snow-covered mountains, a dark fjord, and a sky that in summer never fully darkens.
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Easternmost Webcam
Little Diomede Island, Alaska, USA - On the edge of the International Date Line
Watch Little Diomede Dateline Cam Live
How extreme? Two islands, 2.4 miles apart, on different days of the week. The International Date Line runs between them.
In the middle of the Bering Strait, halfway between Alaska and Russia, there are two small islands called the Diomede Islands.
They are separated by just 2.4 miles of freezing water. On the left is Big Diomede, which belongs to Russia.
On the right is Little Diomede, which belongs to the United States.
They are close enough that on a clear day you can stand on one and see the other.
But here is the extraordinary thing. Running between those two islands is the International Date Line - the invisible line where one day ends and the next begins.
Which means that right now, as you read this, it could be Monday on Little Diomede and Tuesday on Big Diomede.
Two islands, 2.4 miles apart, on different days of the week.
About 80 people live on Little Diomede year-round, part of the Inupiaq community that has called these islands home for thousands of years.
The Dateline Cam looks out across the Bering Strait. Russia is right there. Tomorrow is right there.
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Westernmost Webcam
Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean, USA - 177.4 degrees West
Watch Midway Atoll Live on EarthLive.tv
How extreme? 1,300 miles from Honolulu. Just three degrees from the edge of the world map. Closed to the public. The only way to see it is through a camera.
Take a world map and start at London. Head west. Cross the Atlantic. Cross the United States. Cross Hawaii. Keep going. The Pacific Ocean covers more than a third of the Earth's surface.
Keep going until you are almost at the very edge of the map - just three degrees short of the line where the map folds back on itself.
That is where you will find Midway Atoll.
Luckily, there is a camera - and it is one of the most remarkable live streams on the internet.
Run 24 hours a day by the Friends of Midway Atoll in partnership with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, it looks out over the island's albatross colony.
Tens of thousands of Laysan albatrosses nest here, along with black-footed albatrosses, petrels, tropicbirds and Laysan ducks.
The camera has been a dream over 20 years in the making, set up to bring this extraordinary place to people who will never be able to visit in person.
Midway also carries history. In June 1942 the waters around this tiny atoll were the site of the Battle of Midway - the turning point of the Second World War in the Pacific. Four Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk in three days.
Today the island is a nature refuge and a national memorial, and the albatrosses nest undisturbed.
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Why These Cameras Matter
The South Pole. The high Arctic. A crack in the calendar in the Bering Strait. An atoll near the western edge of the map watched over by thousands of seabirds. These four cameras are about as far apart as anything on Earth can be.
None of them are easy places to reach. All of them are streaming right now. Open all four in separate tabs and you are watching the planet from its outermost edges at the same time - something that would have been impossible even twenty years ago.
These cameras are there whether anyone is looking or not. And that, somehow, makes them the most remarkable cameras of all.
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