Photographer snaps amazing rare white 'rainbow' in the North Pole

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Photographer snaps amazing rare white 'rainbow' in the North Pole
Photographer snaps amazing rare white 'rainbow' in the North Pole

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Hold on a minute - aren't rainbows meant to be multi-coloured?

Actually, it was a rare white 'fog bow' that amateur photographer Sam Dobson snapped on his travels through the North Pole.

Sam had joined a crew on the icebreaker boat 50 Years of Victory, which set off from the Russian town of Murmansk, when the team were surprised to spot the unique phenomenon.

Sam told The Sun: "It was around midnight, but because of the time of year it was still fairly light.

"At first it just looked like a cloud, but as we got closer it was a solid rainbow, but white.

"We were so impressed with it we all got off onto a floating slab of ice to take a closer look.

"It is actually closer than it looks in the pictures."

According to the paper, a fog bow is similar to a rainbow, but it appears as an arch in fog instead of rain.

And, because the water droplets that cause fog are tiny at less than 0.05 millimetres, it appears as a white arc, rather than a multi-coloured one.

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