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unusual facts about Northern Light



2000 Indy Racing League season

The 2000 Indy Racing Northern Light Series season was another season that saw a high level of parity, as only one driver, champion Buddy Lazier, won more than a single race.

2001 Indy Racing League season

The 2001 Indy Racing Northern Light Series season saw the addition of five races and loss of one to bring the total to 13.

Eastham, Massachusetts

Eastham is the birthplace of Freeman Hatch, who in 1853 set the world record (which still stands) for a single-hull wooden sailing vessel from San Francisco around Cape Horn to Boston aboard the clipper ship Northern Light.

Northern Light Group

The company is named after the clipper ship Northern Light, which held the speed record for the San Francisco to Boston voyage for nearly 150 years.


see also

A Northern Light

A Northern Light, or A Gathering Light in the U.K., is an American historical novel for young adults, written by Jennifer Donnelly and published by Harcourt in 2003.

Operation Birke

These factors made it possible for the Germans already on 4 October 1944 to gain Hitler's approval for moving from Operation Birke to Operation Nordlicht (Operation Northern Light) and abandon Northern Finland and fortify to Lyngen, Norway.