- According to Greek Mythology, Hyperborea was a land of a mythical People, the Hyperboreans, who lived in a land beyond the north wind, the Boreas, where the sun shone twenty four hours a day.
- The location of Hyperborea remains a mystery.
The location of Hyperborea according to Ancient Authors
- Thrace
- Britannia
- Hecataeus of Abdera (4th century BCE)
- Writing in the fourth century BCE, he described Hyperborea as an island in the Ocean no smaller than Sicily, and beyond the land of the Celts, which had a circular Temple, possibly meaning Stonehenge or Avebury. This would identify Hyperborea with Britannia.
- Pseudo-Scymnus (c. 90 BCE)
- He thought that Boreas lived on the northeastern tip of Gaul, possibly Carnac, where he was represented by a pillar near the edge of the sea, and that Hyperborea was across the channel, in Britain. (Periegesis, 183)
- Hecataeus of Abdera (4th century BCE)
- Iceland
- Pomponius Mela (14 BCE-45 CE)
- He thought Hyperborea was in the Arctic, possibly meaning Iceland. The Midnight Sun (24 hour daylight) lasts between May to July.
- Pomponius Mela (14 BCE-45 CE)
Iceland