page_title: Dikson (urban-type settlement)
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Dikson (urban-type settlement) / Geography
context_page_description: Dikson is an urban locality in Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is a port on the Kara Sea, located on a headland at the mouth of the Yenisei Gulf, on Russia's Arctic Ocean coast. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 676.
context_section_description: Dikson is the northernmost port in Russia, one of the world's northernmost settlements and the northernmost settlement on the Asian continent. 
  It is so far north that no civil twilight appears from December 8 to January 5. 
  It is one of the world's most isolated settlements.
  Dikson's inhabitants informally call their settlement "Capital of the Arctic", taken from a popular Soviet song.
  Dikson and Dikson Island were named after Swedish Arctic pioneer Baron Oscar Dickson. Dickson, along with Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Sibiryakov, was the patron of a number of early Arctic expeditions, including Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld's Russian Arctic explorations.
caption: 1965 Soviet Union stamp commemorating the 50 year anniversary of the Arctic settlement of Dikson
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